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Earth Looks Teeny-Tiny In These New Images Taken From Saturn
What looks like a non-existent speck in the original image can be blown up to see the few pixels th…
Jennifer Welsh
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This Is What Earth Looks Like From 900 Million Miles Away
In the meantime, the spacecraft has already beamed back to Earth tons of raw images from the event …
Dina Spector
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A Spacecraft Is Going To Take Your Picture From Saturn Today!
This opportunity to image Earth from the outer solar system doesn't come often. There have only bee…
Dina Spector
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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Is Going To Take Your Picture Tomorrow - From Saturn
This opportunity to image Earth from the outer solar system doesn't come often. There have only bee…
Dina Spector
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The Cassini Spacecraft Has Taken Some Incredible Images Of Saturn In Its Decade Circling The Planet
In November 2016, Cassini will begin a series of orbits that will get it ever closer to Saturn, and…
Randy Astaiza,Jennifer Welsh
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Mysterious 'ghostly' shadows larger than planet Earth reappeared on Saturn's rings. NASA says it expects even more to appear soon.
NASA's Hubble telescope spotted mysterious spots on Saturn's rings that scientists have puzzled ove…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA's Webb Telescope spots a water plume twice the length of the US, spewing from a Saturn moon that could host alien life
Gigantic plumes of ocean water are spraying out of Enceladus at a rate of 79 gallons a second, crea…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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Mysterious flashes of light on Venus aren't what scientists thought, according to a new study. And it could mean safer missions to the planet in the future.
Flashing light on Venus was thought to be lightning for years, but scientists couldn't prove it. A …
Sonam Sheth
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Thrifting is more popular than ever. It's also never been worse.
The resale clothing market is projected to be worth $350 billion in 2027. Too bad thrift stores are…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Scientists find new evidence of an internal ocean in Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon Mimas
According to SwRI’s Dr. Alyssa Rhoden, the possibility of Mimas having an ocean “represents a …
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Saturn's gravitational pull shredded an ancient moon, creating its iconic rings and unusual tilt, new research suggests
One of Saturn's icy moons may have been ripped apart 160 million years ago, a new study suggests. T…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Lakes of methane on Saturn's moon Titan may be the craters of giant explosions, a new study shows
Near the moon's north pole, the data showed, a series of small lakes sport rims that tower hundreds…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus contains the building blocks of life, NASA data reveals
Deep in Earth's oceans, seawater mixes with magma that bubbles up through cracks in the ocean floor…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Saturn is officially losing its rings - and they're disappearing much faster than scientists had anticipated
Now, we've known about ring rain since the 1980s when NASA's Voyager mission first noticed mysterio…
Alexandra Appolonia,Shira Pol…
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NASA is about to destroy a $3.26 billion spacecraft by flying it into Saturn - here's a breakdown of what will happen
NASA is using the remaining dregs to fly it straight into Saturn on September 15th, where the $3.26…
Nathaniel Lee,Jessica Orwig
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These are the last close-up photos of Saturn we may see in decades
Cassini is scheduled to die Friday around 6:22 a.m. EDT, though news of its destruction will take a…
Dave Mosher
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Meet Swati Mohan, the Indian-American scientist who helped NASA land rover on Mars
She says the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Operations (GN&C) are "eyes and ears" of …
PTI
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New close-up photos of Saturn's largest moon may be the last for decades
Once Cassini vanishes, it may be the last probe that NASA sends to Saturn for decades. There are cu…
Dave Mosher
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NASA will destroy a $3.26 billion Saturn probe this summer to protect an alien water world
Maize was referring to a warm, saltwater ocean that Cassini found hiding beneath the icy crust of E…
Dave Mosher
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NASA 'tasted' complex organic compounds in a blast of water from one of Saturn's moons - and can't yet rule out the possibility that they're from alien life
Water is being pulled toward Enceladus' core and heated up under pressure, so it's possible that ca…