Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended over a year ago, but data from the craft’s Grand Finale tour of the Saturnian system continues to allow scientists to unlock the ...

For the last 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied on Saturn and its many moons. Turns out, this region of space could hold the greatest secrets of our solar system. Here are 5 of the most ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

SEE ALSO: Cassini says goodbye with its final photos from Saturn "We have loss of signal," one of the mission managers said, as Cassini's final dispatch from Saturn ended. Its fiery death comes as ...

Earth, as seen by Cassini's radar. In order to understand what landforms on Titan could be seen by Cassini's radar, researchers looked at well-known Earth landforms through Cassini's perspective. The ...

Cassini, a robotic spacecraft the size of a small school bus, was orbiting Saturn on December 5, 2010, just as it had been every day for more than six years, when one of its dozen instruments went ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

By the end of the 1600s, Giovanni Domenico Cassini had discovered four ... Discovering more moons of Saturn is likely to require more advanced telescopes or images from further space probes ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn in 2004. For the last 13 years, it has seen sights on Saturn that no other spacecraft has shown us.

Saturn had appeared as a pale and yellow sphere through most telescopes, only the advanced instruments could ... A and B rings lay the 2,982-mile-wide Cassini Division. Saturn’s rings were ...

Despite its Earth-like rivers and lakes of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan seems oddly lacking in river deltas — geological formations that are typically rich in historical clues. Using data from ...