A trio of new observations suggests that several tiny, unseen moons orbit Saturn and control the shape of its rings. One study found strong evidence for a small moon, likely just a few miles wide, ...

If he had sat in mission control alongside the scientists in charge of the Cassini spacecraft when it made its climactic entry into Saturn's orbit, Galileo Galilei would have been astonished. When he ...

The image was taken by NASA's Cassini mission, which plunged to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in 2017. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Maggie Lieu, Research Fellow, School of Physics and ...

NASA Cassini spacecraft images of Saturn’s diaphanous G and E rings are yielding new clues about their structure and formation. A sequence of recent Cassini images, which has been made into a brief ...

The thing is, it’s not just another gorgeous picture. This image – from Cassini, of course – is truly remarkable. The first thing you should know is that Saturn’s rings are incredibly flat. If you ...

Many dream of what they would do had they a time machine. Some would travel 100 million years back in time, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Not many, though, would think of taking a telescope with ...

Many bodies in the Solar System have rings—gas giants, dwarf planets, even an asteroid. These examples have allowed us to get a good picture of their physics, leading to models for how rings form and ...

New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a ...

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7251 Six teams of researchers are publishing their work Oct. 5 in the journal Science, based on findings from Cassini's ...