An image that reveals new details of the planet Saturn is also the second photo of Earth ever taken from the outer reaches of the solar system. The photo from the Cassini probe, released Thursday by ...

A new study built on six years of NASA Cassini spacecraft observations has found that Saturn’s magnetosphere, the giant magnetic bubble shielding the planet from the solar wind, is lopsided in a way ...

I was scrolling through Twitter on Sunday when an image of Saturn’s rings crashing through a cloudy atmosphere caught my eye. The image’s caption said it was “Cassini’s last image before entering ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will work hard to the very end. Cassini will plummet into Saturn's atmosphere early Friday morning (Sept. 15), ending its epic 13-year stint at the ringed planet with a bang.

On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraftmade its final journey into the heart of Saturn, marking the end of an extraordinary 13-year mission dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the gas ...

Saturn's magnetic shield is asymmetrical compared to Earth’s, suggests a new study involving University College London (UCL) researchers, and this is likely a result of its fast rotation coupled with ...

This diagram compares how charged particles enter the magnetic fields of Earth (left) and Saturn (right). On Earth, the entry region is centred and balanced, while on Saturn, it is shifted to one side ...

The complex choreography of Saturn's numerous moons displays beautiful physics, but only a few of the worlds may be friendly to life. Oceans of liquid water, deep beneath the icy crusts of three of ...

Ever since NASA released that photo taken from Saturn by the Cassini spacecraft on July 19 showing the Earth off in the distance, a tiny dot looking for all the world like a dim star in the night sky, ...