Astronomers spot 20 more moons of Saturn — and want you to help name them Saturn has pulled ahead of Jupiter again in the moon discovery race, thanks to a batch of 20 outer moons… Read More
NASA picks Dragonfly mission to send a nuclear drone to Saturnian moon Titan NASA has chosen to commit up to $850 million to creating an interplanetary probe unlike any seen before: a rotor-equipped… Read More
Fighting for science to the last: Cassini mission ends with smash-up at Saturn Before its destruction, the bus-sized Cassini spacecraft fought Saturn’s buffeting atmosphere to send back scientific data for even longer than… Read More
Hours before its doom, NASA’s Cassini probe takes its parting shots at Saturn The final pictures from NASA’s 13-year-long Cassini mission at Saturn are flowing in – and they’re good to the last drop.… Read More
Cassini orbiter’s team turns Saturn crash into cause for celebration – and for science Twenty years after its launch to Saturn, NASA has set the Cassini orbiter on a course for certain destruction on… Read More
Listen to the sound of silence as Cassini crosses ‘The Big Empty’ in Saturn orbit The researchers behind NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn are relieved, and a bit mystified, to discover that the narrow gap… Read More
Cassini orbiter survives first dive inside Saturn’s rings: 21 to go, and then the end NASA’s Cassini orbiter zoomed inside Saturn’s rings overnight for the first time in its 20-year-long flight – and lived to tell about… Read More
It’s a UFO! It’s a walnut? No … It’s Pan, one of Saturn’s weirdest-looking moons Astronomers have long known that Pan, one of the “shepherd moons” in Saturn’s rings, had a weird shape. But it… Read More
This discovery of an enormous ring system makes Saturn look sad Researchers have discovered a ring system — the “first of its kind” — around a young, sun-like star that dwarfs… Read More
