Saturn
You Can Now Use Google Maps to Explore the Solar System
Thanks to the over 500,000 pictures taken by the Cassini mission, Google Maps has created a mapping tool that allows…
Scientists Find Evidence of Extreme Methane Storms On Titan
A recent study by UCLA scientists has shown a link between extreme rainstorms on Titan and surface features detected by…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 458: The Science of Cassini
And now Cassini’s gone. Smashed up in the atmosphere of Saturn. But planetary scientists are going to be picking through…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 457: Why Did Cassini Have To Die? In Memoriam
It’s time to say goodbye to an old friend, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting within the Saturnian system…
Loss of Signal: Cassini Spacecraft Plunges Into Saturn
Until the very end, Cassini displayed just how robust and enduring this spacecraft has been throughout its entire 20 years…
Cassini: The Mission That Will Live Forever
"With Cassini, we had a rare opportunity and we seized it," said Linda Spilker, Cassini Mission Scientist. And on Friday,…
Cassini Conducts a Final Flyby of Titan Before Crashing into Saturn
Before it makes its final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, the Cassini spacecraft made one last flyby of Titan,…
Dragonfly Proposed to NASA as Daring New Frontiers Mission to Titan
The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab recently submitted a proposal to NASA for a robotic mission to Titan known…
What are Gas Giants?
The outer planets of the Solar System - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are gas giants, a designation which…
Cassini Finds that Titan is Building the Chemicals that Might Have Led to Life on Earth
A new study by an international team of scientists shows how Titan's atmosphere could contain a key building block for…