known as the Cassini Division, measures only 2,920 miles in width. The rings' relative thinness and flatness is what allows them to vanish from view every few years due to both Saturn's and Earth ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

Before its death dive into Saturn in 2017, Cassini managed to get a better look at the amount of ring-dust raining on Saturn’s equator. And discovered that it was raining heavier than previously ...

they flew Cassini through the rings of Saturn and into Saturn’s upper atmosphere multiple times. The daring nature of the Grand Finale paid off handsomely, with a host of returns not possible ...

As the 13-year international Cassini mission to explore Saturn draws to a close, the spacecraft has been diving between the gas giant and its innermost rings to explore uncharted territory before ...

The professor's team has published an account of its work with Cassini in Science magazine. There has long been a debate about the age of Saturn's rings. Some had argued these gorgeous loops of ...

This view of the dark Cassini Division, which separates Saturn’s outer A-ring from the inner B-ring, was taken on August 23, 1981, when Voyager 2 was about 1.7 million miles from the planet.

Saturn's rings, once thought young, might be as old as the planet itself, around 4.5 billion years. New research using Cassini data suggests micrometeoroid impacts vaporize, keeping the rings ...

Scientists Compile Cassini's Unique Observations of Saturn's Rings Oct. 18, 2022 — Scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn's rings from the Cassini mission.

NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission determined that Saturn's rings likely formed around 100 million years ago. The rings, influenced by Saturn's magnetic field, are gradually being pulled into the planet.