Like the ancient cartographers of old, scientists working with images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft of Saturn’s icy, airless moons have carefully crafted detailed maps that one day may guide future ...

This global map of Saturn’s moon Dione was created using images taken during flybys by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. An extensive system of bright ice cliffs created by tectonic fractures adorns the moon ...

Back in the 1980s, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft made a brief flyby of Saturn’s moons, providing us with a tantalising glimpse of new worlds. Now, the Cassini mission has finished the job, providing us ...

Although not an official conjunction, three planets and the Moon are grouped within about 10 degrees of the Sun today. Except for the Moon, which will move on into the evening sky, the planets will be ...

JWST’s NIRSpec aurora maps, 10 times sharper than Cassini-era data, exposed a planetary heat engine of aurora, winds, and ...

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 ...

Saturn’s largest and most densely packed ring is composed of tightly packed clumps of particles separated by nearly empty gaps, according to new findings from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. These clumps ...

February 24, 2009 marks the time to see a rare glimpse of the moons Titan, Mimas, Dione, and Enceladus move across the face of their mother planet Saturn. As an added treat, see Comet Lulin streak ...