Unlike rocky planets where asteroid impacts leave visible craters, gas giants like Saturn have outer layers of hydrogen and ...

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

With advancement of space tech, photographs clicked from space over the years illuminate distant worlds in stunning detail.

Right until its final moments, the spacecraft continued to send insightful images of 'The Ringed Planet.' The mission's ...

The final snap was of Saturn itself, even capturing where the spacecraft would ultimately plunge to its final destination. Explaining that impressive final photo, NASA said: "This monochrome view is ...

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took many dramatic images of the rings’ shadows on Saturn.

The Cassini-Huygens mission increased our understanding of the planet’s rings and moons Aaron Boorstein - Staff Contributor One of Cassini's last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a ...

As NASA's Cassini dove close to Saturn in its final year, the spacecraft provided intricate detail on the workings of Saturn's complex rings, new analysis shows.

As NASA's Cassini dove close to Saturn in its final year, the spacecraft provided intricate detail on the workings of Saturn's complex rings, new analysis shows.

Saturn's rings are a complex mix of stripes, speckled textures and other odd features that appear to be sculpted by the planet's moons.

During the final year of NASA’s Cassini mission before it completed a “death dive” into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017, the spacecraft gathered as much data as possible about the planet’s ...