Neptune and Uranus may look similar to us in terms of mass, temperature, and distance, but they may truly be as different as Earth is from Venus. There's only one way to find out.

After examining Saturn from up close for 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft is ending its long career with a boom — and there's an important reason why.

In 1991, Alan Stern, Jonathan Lunine, and David Morrison presented a proposal to NASA to venture forth into unexplored territory. If they’d had their way, NASA would have sent probes to Neptune ...

For 13 whole years, the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn before plunging into the planet, ... Neptune was eventually spotted in 1846, right where astronomers had predicted.

Cassini was the last of NASA’s big missions to the outer solar system. It followed in the footsteps of Voyagers 1 and 2, which visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the late 1970s and ...

That hints the icy moon might not have formed near Saturn but instead farther out, closer to the birthplaces of Uranus and Neptune. Cassini is slated to make another deep plunge into the plumes in ...

Long live Cassini. Menu. Science. The 5 Next Steps for Space Exploration After Cassini. ... “I’d send a pair of Cassini-like orbiters to Uranus and Neptune,” Spilker told reporters.

But I think what Cassini showed us is that if you do put the kitchen sink in and you go all in, that you have incredible flexibility, and you have a 13 year mission that was originally a five year ...

"Missions to both Uranus and Neptune in the 2040s would actually be ideal, since the planets reach equinox in 2046 and 2050, ... Cassini orbited Saturn from 2004 until Sept. 15 ...

Data collected by the Cassini spacecraft, which explored the Saturnian system between June 2004 - September 2017, further informed the relationship, by revealing that the massive moon Titan was ...

Home / NASA Cassini Finds Possible Origin of One of Saturn’s Rings. Posted in Press Release NASA Cassini Finds Possible Origin of One of Saturn’s Rings by SpaceRef August 2, 2007 July 15, 2024.

In 2009, studies showed that Cassini had enough fuel to reach Uranus or Neptune. Cassini could have traveled in the other direction, toward Jupiter, or it could have been sent to visit an assembly ...