Oleg Cassini’s former Oyster Bay estate is all locked up — literally. Access to its gated entrance requires security clearance and the removal of a shiny chain and padlock. Much of the grass is ...

On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon. Iapetus was discovered by the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The rings of Saturn are the most intricate planetary decorations in our solar system, but are ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission, a collaborative endeavor between NASA, ESA, and ASI, was an unprecedented project designed for sustained exploration of Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, following ...

One of the greatest photographers in the solar system is about to hang up its camera. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken nearly 400,000 images during its slow sojourn to Saturn, documenting its 53 or ...

They clapped, though they didn’t smile. But what did you expect? Cassini, their beloved spacecraft, was dead. Confirmation that the explorer had indeed vaporized as planned in the cloud tops of Saturn ...

In 1610, the great natural philosopher Galileo Galilei became the first human to observe the rings of Saturn. His telescope was, however, insufficiently powerful to permit him to understand what he ...

If all goes to plan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will beam new images of Saturn and its rings to Earth early Thursday, sharing data collected Wednesday from its first dive through the gap between the ...

But Cassini’s team is also sacrificing the orbiter to avoid contaminating anything living in the Saturn system. Cassini’s discoveries on Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus---everything from complex ...