On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years for Cassini to reach Saturn. Another smaller spacecraft called Huygens ...

A new analysis of data from four instruments aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has demonstrated the crucial role that Saturn’s ...

What lifeforms could potentially exist within the ocean of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

A major study by an international team of researchers using data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has revealed a lattice-like structure of crisscrossing reflected waves that flow downstream ...

Today marks the NASA Cassini spacecraft's 15th year in space. Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on October 15, 1997 and has since charted more than 3.8 billion miles of ...

Join us as we count down to Cassini's grand finale, and look back over what the spacecraft has discovered during its mission to Saturn ...

In a groundbreaking study, NASA’s Cassini mission reveals new discoveries about the organic chemistry on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. Published Wednesday in Nature Astronomy and further detailed ...

Cassini skimmed closer than any previous spacecraft to the sixth planet from the Sun, and lived to tell the tale. Cassini skimmed closer than any previous spacecraft to the sixth planet from the Sun, ...

Saturn's largest moon Titan has 'slushy tunnels' beneath its surface that could potentially harbour alien life, a new study shows. Scientists at NASA and the University of Washington have analysed ...

After 20 years in the cold void of space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ran out of fuel and crashed into Saturn. This sounds like a very expensive failure by NASA—-but it is NOT!, here’s why: This year, ...