The Cassini mission ends Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. After 13 years of exploring Saturn and its moons, the spacecraft will deliberately plunge at over 75,000 miles per hour into the planet and ultimately ...

The next machine to explore alien worlds may slither rather than roll. NASA is currently testing a snake-like robot that its engineers hope will one day be deployed into the oceans of Saturn’s moon ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun – The Ringed Planet. Curious, young sky watchers often ask, “What’s the planet with the rings?” These rings are Saturn's identity, and those very rings that ...

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Last week, NASA officially approved and confirmed the Dragonfly mission, which has a $3.35 billion budget for the entire mission. The mission will explore Saturn's moon Titan. The project was first ...

NASA recently announced that the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) to observe a more than 6,000-mile water plume being discharged from the ...

A complete and in-depth site about the Cassini orbiter and Huygens probe. Updated daily, it includes an overview of NASA’s mission in launching Cassini, the construction of the actual orbiter, as well ...

With its striking rings and tilted axis, Saturn is the showiest planet in the solar system. Now, scientists say they have a new theory as to how the gas giant got its signature look.The planet’s rings ...

Deep within the cold haze of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, scientists have uncovered a finding that defies earthly intuition — water and oil, the eternal opposites of chemistry, might actually mix. A ...

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