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Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its ...

The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously believed, possibly as old as the planet itself. In 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe arrived to study Saturn, it discovered that the ice ...

Scientists have long known that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it's strangely ...

Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...

The thin, outermost ring in the photo is composed of particles shepherded by the gravity of two moons orbiting around it.

Saturn will appear in the predawn sky in April, although its rings will barely be visible. Credit: Creators.com illustration Saturn is everyone’s favorite planet, it seems. Through a telescope ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

This is a simulated image of Saturn's rings based on data from Cassini. The different colors represent different particle sizes throughout the rings. Image 4 of 5 The Cassini spacecraft’s camera ...