According to NASA, the picture of the jets was taken from afar. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across). North is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini ...

Researchers with the Cassini mission found evidence that the moon’s spin axis — the line through the north and south poles — has reoriented, possibly due to a collision with a smaller body, such as an asteroid, according to NASA. ...

This will continue until Saturn’s solstice in May 2017. At that point in time, the shadow will extend only as far as the innermost A ring, leaving the middle and outer A ring completely free of the planet’s shadow. Over ...

The north polar region of Saturn, in shadow for the first part of the Cassini mission, now enjoys full sunlight, which enables Cassini scientists to directly image it in reflected light, according to NASA. Although the sunlight falling on the ...

The movie comprises one hour of observations as the Cassini spacecraft moved southward over Saturn, according to NASA. It begins with a view of the swirling vortex at the planet’s north pole, then heads past the outer boundary of the hexagon-shaped ...

Flight controllers regained contact with Cassini on Thursday, a day after it became the first craft to cross this hazardous region. The rings are made up of countless icy particles, any of which could have smacked Cassini. The spacecraft’s big ...

According to NASA, because that gap is a region no spacecraft has ever explored, Cassini will use its dish-shaped high-gain antenna (13 feet or 4 meters across) as a protective shield while passing through the ring plane. No particles larger ...

Cassini captured the view on April 12, 2017, at 10:41 p.m. PDT (1:41 a.m. EDT on April 13). According to NASA, the spacecraft was 870 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away from Earth when the image was taken. Although far ...

This suggests that Enceladus’ ocean of liquid water might be only a couple of miles beneath this region — closer to the surface than previously thought, Joinfo.com reports with reference to NASA. The excess heat is especially pronounced over three ...

The Cassini spacecraft took a close-up photo of Saturn’s moon Pan, according to a new post by NASA, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Business Insider. This top-down image from Cassini — taken from about 15,000 miles (24,500 kilometers) away — shows what may ...

Cassini spacecraft took this photo of the sixth-largest moon of Saturn at a distance of approximately 41,000 miles (66,000 kilometers) from Enceladus with its narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2016. Image scale is 1,310 feet (398 meters) per pixel, Joinfo.com ...

The north pole of Saturn sits at the center of its own domain. Around it swirl the clouds, driven by the fast winds of Saturn. Beyond that orbits Saturn’s retinue of moons and the countless small particles that form the ...

The spacecraft captured the image during its closest-ever flyby of Pandora on Dec. 18, 2016, during the third of its grazing passes by the outer edges of Saturn’s main rings, according to NASA report. The image was taken in green ...

Cassini spacecraft has been touring around Saturn for 12 years. And now it has sent to Earth its first views of Saturn’s atmosphere, including the planet’s intriguing hexagon-shaped jet stream, according to the statement. Cassini began its new mission phase, ...

Cassini crossed through the plane of Saturn’s rings on Dec. 4 at 8:09 a.m. EST at a distance of approximately 57,000 miles (91,000 kilometers) above Saturn’s cloud tops, as NASA reports. Cassini has been touring the Saturn system since arriving ...