Although Cassini's mission will end in September, with a fiery farewell into Saturn's atmosphere, as this latest observation shows, there's a lot more surprises in store as it sets itself up for a ...

Saturn's rings appear as bright waves against a black sky in detailed new pictures from the Cassini spacecraft, which made its closest pass by the icy debris in years. The rings of Saturn are ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will wrap up its time in the region of Saturn’s large icy moons with a series of three close encounters with Enceladus starting today, October 14. Images are expected ...

Scientists expect to find previously unknown moons embedded in the rings, which contain icy particles from dust-grain size up to rocks and boulders. On May 18, Cassini will enter the Saturn system ...

Last month, Cassini got close-up glimpses of Titan and Enceladus ... NASA launched Cassini in 1997 and the spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004. It dropped a European-built lander called Huygens ...

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The mission began in 1997 when Cassini was launched on a trip to Saturn to look for evidence of water and capture the first close-up views of the planet. The spacecraft arrived in 2004 ...

The only spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn, Cassini showed us the planet, its rings and moons up close in all their splendor. Perhaps most tantalizing, ocean worlds were unveiled on the moons ...

Launched in 1997, Cassini reached Saturn in 2004. The craft revolutionized scientists’ knowledge of Saturn, with its first close-up survey of the gas giant. The craft is now locked into a ...

Two of Saturn's moons, Enceladus and Tethys, aligned themselves in what NASA called a... Cassini camera captures Saturn 'moon mushroom' SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

The Cassini spacecraft has been busy over this past week, making close flybys of both Enceladus and and Tethys, two of Saturn’s moons ... By Rose Pastore Sign up to receive Popular Science ...

The highly saturated image was an artistic representation of Cassini's final mission. Actual images captured by the spacecraft were monochrome with far less detail. NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...