These are the closest-ever images of Saturn. They were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft just days before it crashed into Saturn. The results are spectacular. Shortly after Cassini took its final ...

In fact, it's the closest any spacecraft has ever come to Saturn — just 1,900 miles from the beautiful planet's cloud tops. Even more exciting, Cassini has already transmitted images of what it ...

(Cassini launched from Earth in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004.) The download of Cassini's last pictures, which began around 5:45 p.m. EDT on Thursday, should take about 11 hours to finish.

In its thirteen years at Saturn, Cassini has transformed our understanding ... "Where Cassini took its final plunge": Linda Spilker explains the last images This moon was seen to spurt water ...

Saturn will undergo a drastic change in the coming months, at least as the planet is seen from Earth. Here's what's going to ...

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

The images were taken by Cassini spacecraft camera at a distance of approximately 1.7 million km from Saturn. Saturn's atmosphere is fast-moving and turbulent with wind speeds of 1,800 km/hr in ...

though since one orbit takes 29 Earth-years each of its four seasons last for around seven Earth-years. As it happens, it’s been summer in Saturn’s northern hemisphere since NASA’s Cassini ...

The book includes beautiful views of Saturn. This image shows the planet's north pole and its hexagonal blue-yellow storm, which is big enough to fit several Earths inside.

On October 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com The Cassini spacecraft would ...

There is also a very faint ring in the orbit of Saturn's moon Phoebe. Launched in 1997, NASA's Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit seven years later and studied the planet until 2017.