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The Cassini mission to Saturn may be over, but scientists and the rest of humanity will be poring over images from the spacecraft for years to come. Below is the very last picture Cassini took of ...
From a shadow on Saturn's rings to a murky baby star, you will be dazzled by all that space has to offer. Hubble archives revealed a moon orbiting 2007 OR10, the third-largest dwarf planet in our ...
The May 7 photos were taken from Cassini's new orbit around Saturn that brings it through the 1,500-mile-wide gap between the huge planet and its plane of rings.
The international Cassini spacecraft began unveiling Saturn's mysterious sidekick Titan with a stream of increasingly sharp pictures of the surface taken during a flyby within 745 miles of the ...
Six infrared images of Titan were captured by the Cassini spacecraft, which, after 13 years of exploration, burned up in Saturn's atmosphere last year.
Here on Earth, auroras are pretty neat sight to see. The phenomenon, commonly called the “Northern Lights,” is fairly well understood by scientists. They occur … ...
Cassini is now just hours away from entering Saturn’s atmosphere (you can watch live from mission control on NASA TV).It’s predicted to break apart at 6.32am EDT (11.32am BST), with its final ...
While that's pretty close, the closest flyby yet happened in 2011, when Cassini flew by Dione at an altitude of 62 miles. This is a photo of Dione, one of Saturn's moons.
If Hubble had taken it, that would mean Hubble and the Earth had been jettisoned to an orbit beyond the gas giant, which would make capturing views of Saturn pretty low on the priority list, way ...
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, captures the imagination. The distant world plays host to lakes of liquid methane and ethane that look like they could be a nice spot for an alien yachting expedition ...
Here on Earth, auroras are pretty neat sight to see. The phenomenon, commonly called the "Northern Lights," is fairly well understood by scientists. They occur when charged particles from the Sun ...