NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet’s giant moon Titan. The spacecraft made its closest approach to Titan today ...

Resembling a lumpy chunk of coral floating through space, Hyperion is one of the weirdest moons not just of Saturn, but in the whole solar system. Its shape is irregular, its rotation is chaotic, and ...

Photo cuts through haze to reveal some of the features on moon's surface. This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission ...

What kind of mission would be best suited to sample the plumes of Saturn's ocean world, Enceladus, to determine if this intriguing world has the ingredients to harbor life? This is what a recent study ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus is a frozen world, but it isn't frozen solid. Colossal cryovolcanoes near the ice-locked moon's south pole send plumes from its briny global ocean so far into space that they ...

The international Cassini space probe flew within 16 miles of the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus yesterday -- a breathtakingly close flyby designed to gather dust and water particles that will ...

First images from the Cassini flyby of Phoebe reveal it to be a scarred, cratered outpost with a very old surface and a mysterious past, and a great deal of variation in surface brightness across its ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Tiny grains of ice or particles of space dust could significantly damage the Cassini spacecraft when it passes close by Saturn's moon Enceladus next March, scientists said on ...

Controlled from 774 million miles away, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will swoop within 30 miles of the surface of one of Saturn’s moons Wednesday, in an unprecedented flyby maneuver. In a moment long ...

On June 24, 1999, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. Taking advantage Venus's gravity, Cassini gained enough momentum during the encounter to slingshot out past ...

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's $3.4 billion Cassini spacecraft passed Jupiter at the closest point of its trip Saturday, using gravity from the solar system's largest planet to swing it toward Saturn.