Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...
As Earth and Saturn enter into a parallel vantage point, the planet’s rings would disappear from certain vantage point on ...
Cassini went to Saturn in 2004 and captured the illuminated ... "We’re just really lucky to have developed intelligent life on Earth and launched a spacecraft to Saturn during the 200 million ...
The Cassini Mission later discovered seven new Saturnian moons. A ring-crossing is where Saturn’s rings seem to disappear from our point of view here on Earth. This is when Saturn is at just the ...
For more than 10 years, Cassini observed Saturn and its family of strange moons ... extend around the moon 10 times as far into space as Earth's atmosphere, sometimes falling to Titan's surface ...
Earth isn’t the only planet that experiences equinoxes: Every planet in our solar system has them. In 2009, the Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn captured an equinox on the ringed planet.
Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...
Saturn's first moon, Titan, was discovered in 1655 by Christiaan Huygens, and in the following decades, Jean-Dominique Cassini discovered ... tourism industry and Earth-based astrotourism.