When the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed by Saturn, it took images that were used to discover the moon Atlas. The Cassini Mission ...

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.

SEE ALSO: Extraterrestrial Oceans Could Host Life A new photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft near ... is the "pale blue dot" image taken by Voyager 1 in 1990. That image shows Earth as a tiny ...

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.

with the top results being the Voyager "Grand Tour" program of the 1970s and 1980s; the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and its moon Titan; Mars Science Laboratory (the Curiosity and ...

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.

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

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 ...

Saturn has 274 moons recognized by the International Astronomical Union. The number of moons increased substantially in March 2025 when 128 new moons were discovered by a team led by Edward Ashton ...