NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took many dramatic images of the rings’ shadows on Saturn.

Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science ...

Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...

the joint European Space Agency–NASA Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, with the Huygens lander specifically designed to study Titan. Because some research suggested Titan’s ...

In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would "plant the stars and ...

Make time soon to head outside after the sun sets and study the sky. Five of the brightest planets — Venus, Jupiter, Mars, ...

"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M. Keck Observatory/Judy Schmidt | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...