Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup ...

Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...

The Cassini probe has begun the final phase of its mission to Saturn. The satellite has executed ... Cassini will send all the data back to Earth during its next contact on Tuesday.

The American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to destroy itself by plunging into the planet's atmosphere. It survived for ...

Titan is more than a billion kilometres from our Sun but occasionally it’s shadow can be seen here on Earth ... signals from Cassini space probe before it burns up in Saturn’s atmosphere ...

In 2005, NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter took images of Saturn's moon Enceladus, and discovered geysers blasting particles of water ice into space from fractures near the south pole. The observation ...

Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended over a year ago ... the presence of dust storms on its surface. As on Earth and Mars, weather patterns on Titan vary from season ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense meteorite bombardment, a new study proposes. Scientists assessed 21 ...

Note: Since beams of light (and data transmissions) take more than an hour to reach Earth from Saturn, all times are from Cassini's vantage unless otherwise noted. What: A flyby of Titan ...

Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere, and the most Earth-like place we know of ... of Titan’s surface the surface taken by Cassini’s, the researchers did not find an obvious ...

NASA’s Cassini orbiter continues to send back some stunning shots of Saturn even as its days are rapidly coming to an end. The spacecraft’s latest delivery is one of its best yet, offering us ...

Saturn's rings are so massive they can be seen with amateur telescopes and even high-powered binoculars. But they will be obscured from the Earth's perspective ... to this the Cassini-spacecraft ...