A new study built on six years of NASA Cassini spacecraft observations has found that Saturn’s magnetosphere, the giant ...
The gas giant’s rapid rotation and its active moons have contributed to such asymmetry.
"A better understanding of Saturn’s environment is especially urgent now as plans for our return to Saturn and its moon ...
Saturn’s magnetic field isn’t the smooth, symmetrical shield scientists see around Earth. Instead, it’s noticeably skewed, ...
Just six months after the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, its cameras caught something spectacular. It was Jan. 16, 2005, and Cassini was zipping past Enceladus, a bright, tiny moon just 313 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years for ...
Cassini is ending its 13-year tour of the Saturn system with an intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn’s moons. In particular Cassini will avoid Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and ...
As NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its fateful dive into the upper atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, the spacecraft was live-streaming data from eight of its science instruments, along with readings ...