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 ...

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 ...

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.