Update for Sept. 15: Cassini has made its final plunge into Saturn. See our final farewell here: RIP, Cassini: Historic Mission Ends with Fiery Plunge into Saturn The final photos taken by NASA's ...

The space agency released the image of Earth, the moon and part of Saturn taken Friday by the Cassini probe, which has been orbiting the giant planet for 15 years. The image, shot beneath Saturn's ...

Cassini found several moons orbiting Saturn, and as of 2023, the planet’s known number of moons in its orbit is almost 150. Titan On January 14, 2005 , the Huygens probe landed on Titan and ...

(NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute Image) NASA’s Cassini orbiter zoomed inside Saturn’s rings overnight for the first time in its 20-year-long flight – and lived to tell about it.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter took images of Saturn's moon Enceladus, and discovered geysers blasting particles of water ice into space from fractures near the south pole. The observation ...

Saturn is tilted at 26.73 degrees on its orbit, while Earth is very close to that at a 23.5-degree tilt. When the two planets line up just right, the rings of Saturn are almost entirely horizontal ...

A collision of such size could explain the small moons that orbit Saturn. Here's what to know about Saturn's newly-discovered moons. The new moons are only a few kilometers across in size (one ...

Saturn's characteristic rings are made of chunks of ice and rock, thought to have fallen into orbit around the planet after larger cosmic bodies were torn apart by Saturn's gravity. The rings ...

In the process of those interactions, however, the moon spun out of orbit, got close to Saturn, and was destroyed, creating the ring material. While the models don't tell us this is definitively ...

If all the objects are recognized by scientific authorities, the ringed giant world will have 145 moons in its orbit. Saturn and several of its moons, including Tethys, Dione and Rhea while Mimas ...