NASA's Cassini satellite ended its 13-year mission in September 2017, but scientists and researchers are analyzing some of the final data sets sent back from it. The new data was analyzed, and two new ...
For only the third time ever, Earth has been photographed from the outer Solar System. At a distance of 898 million miles, as seen by NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini satellite, the Earth is a tiny, ...
NASA's Cassini satellite appears to have captured an incredibly rare photo that shows the birth of a new moon emerging from the rings of Saturn. The facts are a little hazy at the moment because we ...
That’s no space sponge above — it’s a moon of Saturn. Hyperion, one of the oddest-looking moons in the solar system, shows off its bizarrely sculpted surface in new images taken by the Cassini ...
As spring continues to unfold on Saturn, April showers on the planet’s largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA’s Cassini ...
NASA said today its Cassini spacecraft was tracking a 3,000-mile-wide storm on Saturn that stretches around the ringed planet and could ultimately change its atmosphere. NASA’s Cassini satellite, in ...
Scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn's rings from the Cassini mission. The compilation will inform future investigations of the particle size distribution and ...
I was up bright and early this morning to attend the opening symposium at the 216th American Astronomical Meeting in Miami, Florida. The talk was about Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and was given ...
Images of Saturn’s narrow and contorted F ring returned by cameras onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have revealed phenomena not previously detected in any planetary ring. The findings are reported in ...
The science team responsible for NASA's Cassini spacecraft has released a gallery of the stand-out images from the probe's final hectic year exploring the Saturnian system. The collection shows off ...
Cassini put up a good fight. The NASA Saturn probe fired its thrusters full bore for at least 91 seconds during its suicide plunge into the ringed planet on Sept. 15, battling hard to keep its antenna ...