With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

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.

Just six months after the Voyager mission ended, Porco applied for the team leader position on the Cassini mission to Saturn. On a day she will never forget, November 13, 1990, she was informed ...

These are the closest-ever images of Saturn. They were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft just days before it crashed into Saturn. The results are spectacular. Shortly after Cassini took its final ...

Pioneer led to Voyager, which led to Galileo and Cassini. And while NASA has no specific plans to return to Saturn after 2017, there are plenty of ideas for Enceladus missions and Titan landers.

Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand ... paved the way for the Jupiter orbiter Galileo and the Saturn orbiter Cassini that followed, which spent years gathering photos ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made a big name for itself by being a reliable source of really awesome photographs of parts of Saturn and its moons that humans had never seen before, along with ...

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 ...

The Cassini space probe is due to end its 20 year mission to study Saturn, by crashing in to the planet on Friday 15 September. Michele Dougherty, The Royal Society, Research Professor ...

NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and ... The most in-depth study of Saturn was done by the Cassini-Huygens mission, which launched from Earth in 1997 and reached the ringed gas giant ...