Moving in some high-risk pathways between Saturn and its inner rings, it successfully got closer to the planet to fulfil its ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

There is poetry in the fact that when the Cassini spacecraft burns up in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, ending its mission, the bus-sized spacecraft will become a part of the planet it has admired ...

Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in understanding more about Saturn and in future resource-mining. The ...

The frozen dirty snowball is tidally locked with Saturn, meaning one side always faces toward the ringed giant. In 2010, the Cassini spacecraft detected a thin atmosphere — known as an exosphere ...

The current naming scheme for moons on Saturn is based on characters from Norse and other mythology. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere in September 2017, after 20 ...

Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...