During the Grand Finale, Cassini flew through Saturn’s rings multiple times ... the presence of dust storms on its surface. As on Earth and Mars, weather patterns on Titan vary from season ...

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

Its mass is 93 times that of the earth, and Jupiter alone exceeds it in magnitude. The equatorial diameter of Saturn is about ... of 1,450 miles known as “Cassini's division,” from the outer ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

Earth and Jupiter. Then Christiaan Huygens added the ringed planet Saturn to the list by discovering its largest moon, Titan. Since then, 47 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, 15 of which ...

The chemical processes resemble what’s happening in hydrothermal vents on Earth’s ... moon by studying Saturn’s ring ...

NASA is planning to send a drone to a nearby moon that will hunt for alien life. The Dragonfly probe will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – around 745 million miles from Earth. That ...

Note: Since beams of light (and data transmissions) take more than an hour to reach Earth from Saturn, all times are from Cassini's vantage unless otherwise noted. What: A flyby of Titan ...

New Analysis of Cassini Data Yields ... 850 million miles from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a ... Using Eclipses to Calculate the Transparency of Saturn's Rings Nov. 14, 2023 ...

Marcia Dunn, aerospace writer, Cape Canaveral; Kathy Young, videojournalist, New York; Marshall Ritzel, motion graphics illustrator, New York, and Nicky Forster, interactive producer, New York, for a ...

A new study, led by planetary scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, revealed that methane gas may also be trapped ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Montage of JWST MIRI/MRS observations of Saturn in November 2022 ...