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 ...

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

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 ...

This is a world of unique complexity, made up of a central body and its satellites, not to mention the famous ring surrounding the planet at its equator. Saturn is also being orbited by a man-made ...

"The gravitational pull of Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers across) creates waves in Saturn's rings that are visible in some Cassini images." Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable ...

NASA's Cassini's spacecraft has been undergoing a series of risky AF "dives" or "ring crossings," swooping between Saturn and its icy rings and over the planet's surface, capturing some incredible ...

(Thank goodness we now have arxiv.org for preprints!) Only in 1675 did Giovanni Domenico Cassini formally describe Saturn's rings in the plural. Much of what is known about Saturn's rings today ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has long since bitten ... As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, Saturn’s iconic rings tend to litter some of its moons with a variety ...

When the Cassini spacecraft was launched in 1997, it’s primary mission was to study the iconic rings of Saturn and send back information about the planet and the composition of these rings.

The Cassini spacecraft is still observing Saturn and continues to send us images with unprecedented detail. More rings and ringlets could well be discovered in the time to come ...

A few years back, Cassini spacecraft determined that the amount of impurity in Saturn's rings was about one per cent. If scientists could determine the mass of Saturn's rings, they could easily ...

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.