On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its ...

Before its death dive into Saturn in 2017, Cassini managed to get a better look at the amount of ring-dust raining on Saturn’s equator. And discovered that it was raining heavier than previously ...

The glowing patch appears to emanate from what's known as Saturn's "B ring," but looks can be deceiving. SEE ALSO: NASA Releases Footage Celebrating 10 Years of Cassini's Saturn Orbit The bright ...

The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously believed, possibly as old as the planet itself. In 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe arrived to study Saturn, it discovered that the ice ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during their period of maximum tilt as seen from Earth.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has long since bitten ... these odd little moons let us peer into how they interact with Saturn’s rings,” JPL’s Bonnie Buratti said in a statement.

A few years back, Cassini spacecraft determined that the amount of impurity in Saturn's rings was about one per cent. If scientists could determine the mass of Saturn's rings, they could easily ...

Saturn will temporarily lose its iconic look from our viewpoint on Earth, appearing as a pale, yellow sphere without its swirling rings shrouding the gas giant. The billions of rocky and icy ...

The gravitational tugs of these moons are also responsible for creating distinct gaps in the rings, such as the famous Cassini Division. The interaction between Saturn's rings and its moons not ...