2 April 2019
Saturn has a smorgasbord of little moons. The final few orbits the Cassini spacecraft made before it disintegrated in the planet’s atmosphere allowed it to observe five of the planet’s small inner moons up close.
17 January 2019
Some of the Cassini spacecraft’s final measurements of Saturn’s gravitational field show that its rings are younger than we thought, and its winds run deeper
4 October 2018
Before the Cassini spacecraft melted away in Saturn’s atmosphere, it hurtled between the planet and its rings 22 times - and made some strange discoveries
19 July 2018
Saturn’s moon Titan is shrouded in a thick orange haze, but 13 years of data from the Cassini spacecraft have allowed us to peer through to the frozen surface
27 June 2018
Saturn’s moon Enceladus spews plumes of water into space, and it’s also spitting out complex organic molecules that could be the building blocks of life
15 September 2017
These unusual patterns in Saturn's rings give us clues to what happens when planets are born, and may help us understand how our solar system formed
13 September 2017
Before the Cassini spacecraft ends its 20-year mission by disintegrating in Saturn’s atmosphere, we have one last chance for new information on the gas giant
11 September 2017
The Cassini spacecraft is passing by Titan on its final nosedive into Saturn. Plenty has been revealed about Saturn’s largest moon on Cassini’s 20-year mission
28 July 2017
The discovery of two compounds that could help make cells only adds to Titan’s image as the most promising place in our solar system to look for alien life
16 May 2017
Some extremophile bacteria could survive the a crash-landing of a meteorite or spacecraft, helping them travel between worlds
