The Cassini Division is the largest of several gaps between Saturn's rings and measures around 2,920 miles wide. Read more: Cassini spacecraft delivers biggest revelation yet: A moon of Saturn is ...

The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has successfully executed its daring dive, hurtling through the 1,500-mile-wide gap between Saturn and its rings.

One early result intriguing scientists concerns Saturn’s Cassini Division, the large gap between the A and B rings. While Saturn’s rings are almost exclusively composed of water ice, new ...

A Sept. 14 image from Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer shows the spot in Saturn’s atmosphere (marked by a white ellipse) where the spacecraft met its demise a day later.

CAPE CANAVERAL (CBSMiami/AP) — NASA's Cassini spacecraft is facing on last adventure around Saturn. Cassini swings past Saturn's mega moon Titan early Saturday for a gravity-assisted, orbit ...

Twenty years after its launch to Saturn, NASA has set the Cassini orbiter on a course for certain destruction on Friday – but there’s a decidedly positive spin to the $3.3 billion mission’s end.

Saturn's rings viewed in the mid-infrared show bright Cassini division. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 02 / 170224092557.htm ...

Cassini-Huygens was an unprecedented foray into the unknown. It was not our first close-up glimpse of Saturn — the Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 probes had zipped by the planet in 1979 ...

Cassini, the spacecraft about to dive into Saturn, was named for the astronomical pioneer who first perceived the gap between the planet’s famous rings. Skip to content Subscribe or renew today ...

Cassini Division A 2,900-mile-wide gap caused by the gravity of the moon Mimas. A Ring ... An artist’s impression of Cassini flying inside Saturn’s C and D rings.