It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

The Remarkable Rings (2005): Science’s understanding of Saturn changed forever after the Cassini spacecraft—which ended its long mission in September 2017—began orbiting through the ...

SATURN'S RINGS AS THEY WOULD APPEAR TO AN OBSERVER ... which is separated by an interval of 1,450 miles known as “Cassini's division,” from the outer very bright ring, the breadth of which ...

The drops of liquid freeze and drift into Saturn’s E ring (a faint ring outside of the brighter main rings). During its mission at the gas giant from 2004 to 2017, NASA’s Cassini probe flew through ...

After that it will intentionally crash into the atmosphere of Jupiter similar to crashing Cassini into Saturn. Juno’s mission ... you will notice that its rings are very thin now, only tilted ...

As it flew by Jupiter in March 1979, Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around ... The Cassini spacecraft took detailed photos of Jupiter on its way to neighbuoring Saturn as did New Horizons ...

Saturn’s rings are made from billions of pieces of ice and rock. To explore more: Visit Saturn’s photo album . Take a look with your little one at images taken by the spacecraft Cassini ...

Saturn's rings loop for hundreds of thousands of miles ... frozen and unchanging. But in 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft travelled to the South Pole and discovered that stillness shattered.