The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of 394,000 miles (634,000 ...

Here, NASA has compiled all the images into one, incredible video that reveals exactly what Cassini saw. One of the sights that surprised scientists most was the sharp edges of Saturn's hexagon ...

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

An curved arrow pointing right. At just 240,000 miles from Saturn's north pole, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped some stunning photos. These are the first images of the spacecraft's new mission ...

SEE ALSO: These photos of a hexagon on Saturn are totally real Thanks to ... soft landing on an outer-planet moon," Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, said in a statement.

Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended over a year ago, but data from the craft’s Grand Finale tour of the Saturnian system continues to allow scientists to unlock the ...

At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles ... Only in 1675 did Giovanni Domenico Cassini formally describe Saturn's rings in the plural. Much of what is known ...

SEE ALSO: Extraterrestrial Oceans Could Host Life A new photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft near Saturn shows Earth as a small speck of light, framed and dwarfed by Saturn's famous rings.

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Twenty years ago, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a billion mile trek to Saturn. The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons.

Until Cassini took a closer look in 2005 ... Scientists think that the edge, in the shape of a hexagon, has marked Saturn’s northern tip for centuries. A central cyclone pirouettes right ...