In 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped an exceptional view of our vivid blue planet beyond Saturn's glorious rings. "At a ...

The international Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has executed the course correction ... and other science data that will be streamed back to Earth on Tuesday. The investigation of the 5,150km ...

Saturn's bulk composition is thought ... overall distribution of the material in the interior." Cassini will send all the data back to Earth during its next contact on Tuesday.

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

On April 26, NASA flew its Cassini spacecraft closer to Saturn than ever before ... million miles away — about 9 times farther than Earth is to the Sun — these close ups are nothing short ...

But observations by NASA’s former Cassini spacecraft give a darker ... But for much of its existence, the planet was as naked as Earth. While Saturn first formed around 4.5 BILLION years ago ...

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 ...

Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere, and the most Earth-like place we know of ... of Titan’s surface the surface taken by Cassini’s, the researchers did not find an obvious ...

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 ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

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 ...

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 ...