On Enceladus, the observations were no less stunning. "Where Cassini took its final plunge": Linda Spilker explains the last images This moon was seen to spurt water vapour into space from cracks ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons. Scientists have watched a new band of the ring form and witnessed the changing of seasons on this gas ...

Instead of chucking Cassini into the void of space, mission managers in 2010 decided to squeeze every last ... Earth, allowing NASA to download all data it's recorded (included the final photos).

Even though Cassini ... Earth. The data gathered by Cassini for this study was acquired by the spacecraft on 22 April 2017 as it performed its final close flyby of Titan. “This was Cassini ...

Its two-megapixel JunoCam camera captures images while traveling at around 130,000 mph and rotating. The raw data is sent back to Earth via NASA's Deep Space Network for dozens of citizen ...

Planetary rings don’t last forever, although they do exist for millions of years. The evidence for Earth’s possible ring is ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

New research provides a more complete picture for how the last Snowball Earth event ended, and suggests why it preceded a dramatic expansion of life on Earth, including the emergence of the first ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Montage of JWST MIRI/MRS observations of Saturn in November 2022 ...

"Hello Earth — We are so grateful for all the support! Please enjoy two recent photos from our mission ... Polaris Dawn is expected to last about five days, meaning it will likely come back ...

The space agency determined late last month that the pair will make their journey back to Earth on board a SpaceX ... he immediately went to capture some images of the site from space.