was discovered in 1980 by Voyager 1. Cassini and the James Webb Space Telescope both found that much of the material for Saturn's E ring—a diffuse ring outside the bright, main rings—comes ...

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.

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...

Voyager 1's most famous shot may be what famed astronomer ... detail by orbiting missions—Galileo and Juno at Jupiter, Cassini at Saturn. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft that has visited ...

Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended over a year ago, but data from the craft’s Grand Finale tour of the Saturnian system continues to allow scientists to unlock the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn in 2004. For the last 13 years, it has seen sights on Saturn that no other spacecraft has shown us.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

The original mission was meant to last four years as the probe visited Jupiter and Saturn. It’s now spent 46 years in space, making Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 the longest-operating ...

She is currently the leader of the imaging team on the Cassini mission to Saturn. She and her team ... Blue Dot" image of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and the "Day the Earth Smiled ...

Voyager 1 visited Jupiter and Saturn and then kept on going and going. In 2012, it left our cosmic neighborhood and entered the space between stars. It was the first human-made object to leave our ...