Moving in some high-risk pathways between Saturn and its inner rings, it successfully got closer to the planet to fulfil its ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

An illustration shows the Cassini spacecraft investigating Titan with its parent planet Saturn in the background (Image ...

And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? Two moons, Enceladus and Janus, hover over Saturn's rings. This image was ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

SEE ALSO: Cassini spacecraft snaps new photos of Saturn's weirdest moon That ridge -- which is prominently seen in new photos taken by the Cassini spacecraft -- also gives the moon a distinct ...

Pallene: Discovered on June 1, 2005, by the Cassini imaging team. Pan: Discovered by Mark Showalter in 1990 using images captured by Voyager 2, nine years prior. Pandora: Discovered in October ...

Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...