The American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to destroy itself by plunging into the planet's atmosphere. It survived for ...

Each Voyager spacecraft has 65,000 individual parts. Photograph taken on October ... This view of the dark Cassini Division, which separates Saturn’s outer A-ring from the inner B-ring, was ...

Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Join us as we count down to Cassini's grand finale, and look back over what the spacecraft has discovered during its mission to Saturn ...

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The House of Cassini — an eight-story Gilded Age mansion on the Upper East Side that once housed the atelier of Jackie Kennedy’s favorite fashion designer, Oleg Cassini, in its atrium — has ...

The talented and prematurely deceased American astronomer Keeler proved by spectroscopic observations interpreted by DOppler's principle that the inner parts of the ring move more swiftly in a ...

Griffith's team also found tantalizing deposits of organic material in some parts of Titan ... said lead author Marco Mastrogiuseppe, Cassini radar scientist at Caltech in Pasadena, California.

As it happens, it’s been summer in Saturn’s northern hemisphere since NASA’s Cassini mission—which ... that it had to be pointed at only tiny parts of Saturn at any one time to prevent ...