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 ...

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to monitor the planet post-Cassini mission. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

Saturn as seen by the Cassini probe - NASA image. Dr. Ryuki HYODO, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at SpaceData Inc. and affiliated with the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) and the ...

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

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Could finding life in alien oceans be harder than previously thought? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes | Space ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

A startling silhouette of Saturn is created in this Cassini spacecraft portrait ... natural color view of the ringed planet and five of its icy satellites. Image source: NASA ...

The paper is largely based on data from NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft mission, which launched in 1997 and explored the Saturn system from 2004 to 2017. NASA plans to launch its next mission to ...

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