Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

they flew Cassini through the rings of Saturn and into Saturn’s upper atmosphere multiple times. The daring nature of the Grand Finale paid off handsomely, with a host of returns not possible ...

Before its death dive into Saturn in 2017, Cassini managed to get a better look at the amount of ring-dust raining on Saturn’s equator. And discovered that it was raining heavier than previously ...

The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously believed, possibly as old as the planet itself. In 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe arrived to study Saturn, it discovered that the ice ...

New images beamed back from the Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's distinctive rings in unprecedented detail. While the rings, as a whole, look like perfectly smooth disks from a distance ...

Scientists have long known that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it's strangely ...

The Cassini spacecraft is still observing Saturn and continues to send us images with unprecedented detail. More rings and ringlets could well be discovered in the time to come ...

The thin, outermost ring in the photo is composed of particles shepherded by the gravity of two moons orbiting around it.

Saturn will appear in the predawn sky in April, although its rings will barely be visible. Credit: Creators.com illustration Saturn is everyone’s favorite planet, it seems. Through a telescope ...

This is a simulated image of Saturn's rings based on data from Cassini. The different colors represent different particle sizes throughout the rings. Image 4 of 5 The Cassini spacecraft’s camera ...