Saturn's icy moon Mimas (lower L) is seen while looking toward the sunlit side of the planet's rings, and was captured in red light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 21, 2016 ...

Rain falls from Saturn's rings—and a dying spacecraft tasted it. As it plunged to its doom, NASA’s Cassini probe performed final tasks that are revealing secrets about the planet’s famed rings.

As NASA's Cassini dove close to Saturn in its final year, ... Oct. 18, 2022 — Scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn's rings from the Cassini mission.

During the final year of NASA’s Cassini mission before it completed a “death dive” into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017, the spacecraft gathered as much data as possible about the planet’s ...

An illustration of Cassini orbiting Saturn. NASA. Analysing data from Cassini, NASA researchers found evidence of particles and gases from Saturn's inner rings falling down into its upper atmosphere.

NASA has said Saturn's iconic rings will be gone in 300 million years—a blink of an eye cosmically speaking. ... Read more: NASA's Cassini discovers big, 'empty' void between Saturn's rings.

Saturn has not always had rings — the planet's haloes may date only to the age of dinosaurs, ... NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini mission determined that the rings are only about 1 percent impure.

Saturn’s iconic icy rings may not be around for future skygazers to glimpse at through their telescopes, according to new research. A new analysis of data captured by NASA’s Cassini mission ...

Cassini's data indicate that most of Saturn's rings are probably as old as the solar system itself — about 4.5 billion years. Earlier observations, during the Voyager flybys of 1980 and 1981 ...

Images PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orb… ...

Researchers revealed their findings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft about the mini-moons the probe flew by before burning up in Saturn’s upper atmosphere.