The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

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 ...

known as the Cassini Division, measures only 2,920 miles in width. The rings' relative thinness and flatness is what allows them to vanish from view every few years due to both Saturn's and Earth ...

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 ...

The F ring is also fairly easy to make out," said NASA. The Cassini Division is the largest of several gaps between Saturn's rings and measures around 2,920 miles wide. Cassini is currently ...

Each one is conjured by a specific gravitational resonance with a Saturn moon. The substantial moon Mimas causes the large Cassini Division in this way. Saturn's moon Pan forges the 202-mile-wide ...

Fifty such maneuvers over one Earth year would take it past the Cassini Division to the middle of the A ring, where it would orbit Saturn at a distance of 128,000 kilometers once every 13 hours ...

the head of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, is at right. (NASA Photo / Joel Kowsky) Before its destruction, the bus-sized Cassini spacecraft fought Saturn’s buffeting atmosphere to send ...

In 1671 he discovered Saturn’s moon Iapetus and found another ... the thin black band between the two is now known as Cassini’s division. Cassini even guessed, more or less correctly, that ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has successfully executed its daring dive through the 1,500-mile-wide gap between Saturn and its rings ... NASA’s Planetary Science Division in a statement.