NASA's Cassini satellite ended its 13-year mission in September 2017, but scientists and researchers are analyzing some of the final data sets sent back from it. The new data was analyzed, and two new ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through Saturn’s upper atmosphere with its ...

A new study built on six years of NASA Cassini spacecraft observations has found that Saturn’s magnetosphere, the giant magnetic bubble shielding the planet from the solar wind, is lopsided in a way ...

New radar images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft revealed geological features similar to Earth on Xanadu, an Australia-sized, bright region on Saturn’s moon Titan. These radar images, from a strip more ...

NASA's Cassini satellite appears to have captured an incredibly rare photo that shows the birth of a new moon emerging from the rings of Saturn. The facts are a little hazy at the moment because we ...

That’s no space sponge above — it’s a moon of Saturn. Hyperion, one of the oddest-looking moons in the solar system, shows off its bizarrely sculpted surface in new images taken by the Cassini ...

While many of us were stuck sitting behind a school bus in rush-hour traffic this morning, far away from us a much higher-speed spectacle took place. After thirteen years of sometimes bootstrapped and ...

In 2017, the Cassini spacecraft, which had spent nearly two decades working in orbit around Saturn, ended its mission in a “Grand Finale.” But before the spacecraft went out in a blaze of glory by ...

This excellent grouping of three moons –Dione, Tethys and Pandora– near the rings provides a sampling of the diversity of worlds that exists in Saturn’s realm. A 330-kilometer-wide (205 mile) impact ...

One day we may get to go sightseeing on Saturn. Until then, we have Cassini. (May 5, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR) ...

A satellite is an object in space that orbits or circles around a bigger object. There are two kinds of satellites: natural (such as the moon orbiting the Earth) or artificial (such as the ...