Moving in some high-risk pathways between Saturn and its inner rings, it successfully got closer to the planet to fulfil its ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

“Radar images from the Cassini mission reveal elongated streaks on Titan's surface that can extend for hundreds of kilometers ...

Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

The Cassini spacecraft is now feeling the inexorable tug of Saturn's gravity as the bus-sized spacecraft is being pulled down into the giant planet's cloud tops. Even though the probe -- which has ...

Many other spacecraft, including most of the Mariner probes, Pioneers 10 and 11, GOES, Europa Clipper, Cassini, and Juno — to name just a few — have carried one or more magnetometers into the ...

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft first discovered towering plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon's frozen surface, for instance, and it was later theorized that these geysers come from a ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...