Our tiny blue planet has been immortalized in breathtaking images captured from the far reaches of space. These photographs, ...

For years, scientists have been intrigued by Titan as an alien world that might have the right conditions to host life, ...

Cassini spacecraft data has been used to create the infrared views of Saturn's moon Enceladus. "Reddish areas indicate fresh ...

The rings of Saturn glide so tranquilly when watched through a telescope, that it is easy to forget the planet sits in a ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has allowed scientists to determine, for the first time, the pH level of the ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus — and it turns out to be highly alkaline, ...

Unlike rocky planets where asteroid impacts leave visible craters, gas giants like Saturn have outer layers of hydrogen and ...

No one can ever say that Cassini went quietly into its good night. At about 7:55 a.m. ET on Friday, mission controllers on Earth got official word that the Cassini spacecraft -- a joint operation ...

Two and a half years after its fatal dive into Saturn’s upper atmosphere, the Cassini spacecraft still has a lot to say.

Cassini’s dramatic death has been planned since the spacecraft’s inception, to protect the very cosmic objects it was designed to study.

After 13 years in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft had become an icon. The probe's data and imagery reshaped scientists' understanding of the ringed planet and its 60-plus moons, and ...

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its fateful dive into the upper atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, the spacecraft was live-streaming data from eight of its science instruments, along with ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the robotic explorer of Saturn and its ocean moons, died shortly after 4:55 a.m. Friday after burning up in the ringed gas giant’s atmosphere. Cassini was exactly a ...