The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

The resulting images are therefore overlaid onto an image of Saturn in visible light taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. “The quality of the new data from JWST is simply breathtaking,” said ...

Astronomers are struck by images of the Whirlpool Galaxy ... Rings (2005): Science’s understanding of Saturn changed forever after the Cassini spacecraft—which ended its long mission in ...

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

Michael Benson created the image using data returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. Saturn usually appears golden in images, as its thick clouds are predominantly yellow. So scientists were ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

Feb. 7, 2024 — Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ...

Saturn is one of the most stunning planets in our Solar System. Its beautiful rings make it stand out from just about every other planet that calls our region of space home. This beauty ...

Gaseous giant Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid “2019 UO14” when the space rock was “bouncing” around the solar system a few thousand years ago. With the help ...