Between the A and B rings lay the 2,982-mile-wide Cassini Division. Saturn’s rings were believed to be made of broken bits of comets, asteroids, and shattered moons, but the lack of thickness ...

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The Cassini spacecraft is now feeling the inexorable tug of Saturn's gravity as the bus-sized spacecraft is being pulled down into the giant planet's cloud tops. Even though the probe -- which has ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

On April 26, NASA flew its Cassini spacecraft closer to Saturn than ever before. In fact, it's the closest any spacecraft has ever come to Saturn — just 1,900 miles from the beautiful planet's ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn in 2004. For the last 13 years, it has seen sights on Saturn that no other spacecraft has shown us.

Life-supporting energy and nutrients on Titan could come from its surface and core. Organic matter from Titan's atmosphere ...

Saturn is everyone’s favorite planet, it seems. Through a telescope those glorious rings make that world appear so three-dimensional that it’s not ...

Much of what we know about Saturn came from a NASA probe called Cassini, which spent 20 years in deep space. Some of Cassini’s instruments were built at the University of Iowa, including one ...

The gravitational tugs of these moons are also responsible for creating distinct gaps in the rings, such as the famous Cassini Division. The interaction between Saturn's rings and its moons not ...