In this space wallpaper, the Cassini spacecraft takes an angled view toward Saturn, showing the southern reaches of the planet with the rings on a dramatic diagonal. The image was taken with the ...

GIF via NASA The Cassini spacecraft captured the movie’s 8 frames over 10 hours on December 10, 2012. The spacecraft launched in 1997, arrived at Saturn in 2004, and will complete its mission in ...

The Saturn movie and Hubble-aided revelations coincide with a Congressional hearing on the NASA-led exploration for alien life, which we think is the best thing Congress has done in months.

In 2007, the Cassini spacecraft took a series of images of Saturn and its rings from a distance of roughly 1.6 million kilometers. By combining some of these images, false-colored in three bands ...