On a dark and clear night, the sky can seem filled with stars, some shining brighter than others. But a few of those bright ...

In two days time, NASA's Cassini will reach the last stage of its Grand Finale when it enters Saturn's atmosphere. Leading up ...

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took many dramatic images of the rings’ shadows on Saturn.

The famous Cassini mission to Saturn also made two trips to Venus ... storms to make even bigger storms in Jupiter’s tumultuous atmosphere. This pair of false-color images, made from data ...

It has an atmosphere mostly made of ... Enceladus, another of Saturn’s moons, has drawn attention because of icy plumes venting from near its south pole. Observations from the Cassini mission revealed ...