The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

Nasa recently remembered a famous image of Earth as a mere pale blue dot in the distance. The famous photograph was taken in ...

After these “dips” have been completed, Cassini will plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, deliberately crushing and destroying it to prevent it crashing into Saturn’s moons and potentially ...

Cassini snapped the series of images that ... photo of the ringed planet The space probe had been exploring Saturn and its many moons since 2004, and we have no other spacecraft dedicated to ...

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

Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system.

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 ...

Using gravitational assists from Saturn’s moons, Cassini regularly changed its orbit around Saturn, resulting in a wide variety of perspectives on the ring shadows, as illustrated by many images ...

7, 2024 — Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ago ...

A startling silhouette of Saturn is created in this Cassini spacecraft portrait. A kingly crescent Saturn rests on the right of this Cassini spacecraft portrait while the moon Mimas appears above the ...