Moving in some high-risk pathways between Saturn and its inner rings, it successfully got closer to the planet to fulfil its ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

This brings us to the Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn between 2004 and its final fiery crash into the planet in 2017. Saturn orbits the sun at 10 AU. Due to a quirk of MOND, the gravity from ...

An illustration shows the Cassini spacecraft investigating Titan with its parent planet Saturn in the background (Image ...

Caption Artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. These plumes are much like geysers and expel a combination of ...

The hydrocarbons discovered by Cassini when the spacecraft flew through Enceladus's plumes included carbon-bearing molecules like formaldehyde, acetylene, propane, and methane, which is evidence ...