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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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’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 ...

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.

NASA’s Cassini mission officially ended way back in 2017. It was then that the spacecraft plunged into Saturn, destroying itself in a blaze of glory, … ...

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… ...

Saturn, a gas giant that is 4 billion years old, isn't the only planet with rings – but it does have the most spectacular and complex ones, according to NASA. In 2018, NASA said its Voyager 1 ...