With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

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.

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 ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

studied the ring system in detail, and collected data about the planet's magnetic field and atmosphere. The most in-depth study of Saturn was done by the Cassini-Huygens mission, which launched ...

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

Saturn’s rings are long thought to be between 100 million and 400 million years old, based on more than a decade of observations by Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft before its demise in 2017.

Sunrise: 5:57 A.M. Sunset: 7:57 P.M. Moonrise: 11:11 A.M. Moonset: 1:47 A.M. Moon Phase: Waxing crescent (41%) This dramatic image of the ring shadows on Saturn was taken by Cassini July 16 ...

Zipping around Saturn and its moons since 2004, Cassini has detected odd spirals in Saturn's rings and a surprising amount of geologic activity on its moons. Titan, the largest (bigger even than ...