After two decades in space, NASA’s Cassini mission ended with a dramatic plunge into Saturn – but not before sending back ...

Giovanni Cassini was born in Perinaldo, in what is now Italy, on June 8, 1625. Early work on Jupiter and Mars' rotational ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system. A natural-color view of ...

This visible light image shows Saturn and its main rings. The outermost bright band is the A Ring. The Cassini Division separates the A Ring from the brightest broad band, called the B Ring.

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 ...

“If Saturn had been exactly as expected ... Scientists had long known that Mimas creates the Cassini Division — like the spacecraft, named for the 17th-century Italian-French astronomer ...

June 13, 2019, Mountain View, CA -- As NASA's Cassini dove close to Saturn in its final year ... and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for ...

image: 10 million years ago, Saturn's moons moved inwards, opening up the Cassini Division. In 40 million years time, the moons will have moved out far enough for it to close up again. view more ...

The edge of Saturn's outermost A ring can be seen at the top left corner of the image. Moving towards the bottom of the page, one can see the faint Cassini Division, the opaque B ring and the ...

Cassini also noticed that Saturn's ring might not be a single, solid object, and in 1675, he described a gap in the rings, now known as the Cassini division. Cassini even speculated that the rings ...