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When NASA’s Cassini mission arrived at Saturn, it pressed through the haze surrounding the ringed planet’s largest moon, Titan, to reveal a complex, liquid-covered world with the potential to support...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew over Titan on June 7 and July 25 and captured strikingly different photos of the moon’s high northern latitude using the probe’s Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS)...

Iapetus, a Saturn moon with jumbled colors, shows its strange surface shapes in a new view from the Cassini mission, which is currently exploring the gas giant. The picture shows...

Humanity’s light at Saturn has gone out. NASA’s robotic Cassini spacecraft burned up in the ringed planet’s atmosphere Friday morning (Sept. 15), ending a remarkable 13-year run at Saturn that...

After 20 years spent traveling the solar system and 13 years spent circling Saturn, the remarkable Cassini mission is coming to a bittersweet end. On Friday, Sept. 15, mission scientists...

NASA and the Cassini team have given us another gorgeous blast from Saturn’s past. The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from the summer of 2004 until Sept. 15, 2017, when the...

NASA’s Cassini Orbiter captured a breath-taking view of Saturn impossible to see from anywhere else. Using it’s wide-angle camera, with the violet filter, the spacecraft snapped this incredible image on...

The planet Saturn takes its name from a Roman god of agriculture. And of all the planets revolving around our sun, it’s «cultivated» — if you will — the greatest...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has an even better chance of supporting extraterrestrial life than previously thought: researchers have discovered its oceans are more complex than first believed. The moon’s oceans shoot...

Saturn’s most Earth-like moon looks a bit less likely to host life, thanks to quantum mechanics, the weird rules that govern subatomic particles. Titan, the second largest moon in our...