After a 20-year voyage, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is poised to dive into Saturn this week to become forever one with the exquisite planet. There's no turning back: Friday it careens through the ...

Just six months after the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, its cameras caught something spectacular. It was Jan. 16, 2005, and Cassini was zipping past Enceladus, a bright, tiny moon just 313 ...

After a 20-year voyage around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed its mission with a final plunge into the planet's atmosphere. Cassini was the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn giving NASA ...

By a small margin, Titan is the second-largest moon in the solar system, and is also the only moon with a thick atmosphere.

Dan Reisenfeld from the University of Montana joins us this week to talk about his work with three different NASA missions ...

What lifeforms could potentially exist within the ocean of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years for Cassini to reach Saturn. Another smaller spacecraft called Huygens ...

Cassini skimmed closer than any previous spacecraft to the sixth planet from the Sun, and lived to tell the tale. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of features in Saturn's atmosphere from ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explain why NASA’s Cassini mission provided unprecedented insight into Saturn.