Filters aren’t just for Instagram anymore; the Cassini orbiter snapped this wide-angle shot of Saturn using an infrared filter to help scientists get a better look at clouds in the gas giant’s ...

Saturn looms large in the sharpest colour image yet taken of the planet by the approaching Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, due to arrive at the Ringed Planet on 1 July. The image was taken when the ...

It may look as though Saturn’s moon Mimas is crashing through the rings in this image taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, but Mimas is actually 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers) away from the rings.

Cassini is ending its 13-year tour of the Saturn system with an intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn’s moons. In particular Cassini will avoid Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and ...

Phoebe, Saturn’s largest outer moon, is the first target of exploration for the Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft. This composite shows a set of four images taken from June 7 through June 10, 2004, by ...