An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. Rhea is made up of rock and ice and is ...

Thus, when studying Enceladus, every detail really matters — which brings us to a new, very strange detail that scientists ...

The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." ...

The Cassini mission, a landmark collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), unveiled the mysteries of Saturn and its moons. Launched in 1997 ...

Saturn’s rings are among the most glorious, stunning, and well-studied features in the Solar System. However, their age has ...

A new study by scientists in Japan suggests that Saturn's famous rings could be billions, rather than millions of years old.

possibly originating from a torn-apart comet or icy moon. The Cassini spacecraft, which arrived at Saturn in 2004, provided comprehensive data confirming that Saturn's rings are relatively bright ...

A mysterious dark spot on Saturn's moon Enceladus has baffled scientists after it faded over several years. Discovered through NASA’s Cassini mission, the spot's sudden disappearance raises ...

That world was one of Saturn’s many moons, Rhea. The discovery of Rhea took place on December 23, 1672 by Italian astronomer, mathematician and engineer Giovanni Cassini. Rhea was the second of ...

Cassini-Huygens spent more than 13 years in wildly varied orbits around Saturn, allowing the spacecraft to pass near many of its moons, as well as execute a soft-landing of its Huygens lander on ...