Our tiny blue planet has been immortalized in breathtaking images captured from the far reaches of space. These photographs, ...

The hexagon is similar to Earth’s polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region. On Saturn, the vortex has a hexagonal rather than circular shape.

Cassini captured the images over the past 24 hours, but it couldn't send them back to Earth until early Thursday because the craft was using its 13-foot-wide antenna as a deflector shield to ...

New images of Saturn obtained by a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team on June 21 using an instrument on the Cassini spacecraft show auroral emissions at its poles similar to Earth’s ...

Launched in 1997, Cassini carried a probe called Huygens, built by ESA, which was sent to Titan's surface, one of Saturn's moons, in 2005. It remains the most distant landing done by a spacecraft ...

In the image at left, Cassini was 898 million mi. away when its wide-angle camera caught the Earth system floating below Saturn's main rings. Also visible are the F, G and E rings, the latter two ...

Like Earth, Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen with some complex carbon-based compounds. But until Cassini began orbiting Saturn in July, scientists had been unable to see through Titan's dense ...

In all, Cassini-Huygens flew 2.2 billion miles to reach Saturn, using flybys of Venus (twice), Earth and Jupiter to accelerate into ever larger orbits of the sun.

Although NASA's Cassini mission ended in September, new findings are being released about what the spacecraft "learned" about Saturn and its moons during the final days.

FILE - Cassini took images of Saturn in various filters as an engineering test on Oct. 21, 2002. (NASA/JPL/Southwest Research Institute) ...