Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! Iapetus was the second moon anyone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn's third largest moon.Iapetus was discovered by the Italian ...

As Cassini prepares to take its final dive into Saturn just shy of its 20th birthday, many people in the scientific community are taking the time to reflect upon the spacecraft’s journey. But what ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was first discovered in 1665 by astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and both scientists and the public have been awe-stricken by its beauty and the processes that created it ...

In 1669, French-Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini arrived at the still-under-construction Paris Observatory as its new director. He quickly talked Louis XIV’s minister of finance into buying a ...

Across the span of 1671 through 1684, Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered four moons of Saturn while working under the patronage of King Louis XIV. Cassini collectively named the ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, but ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its sojourn at Saturn on Sept. 15, with a plunge in the atmosphere of the ringed planet. The mission began in 1997 when Cassini was launched on a trip to Saturn to look ...

Musica, animazioni e poesia si fondono questa sera alla Rocca di Ravaldino. Al centro del racconto uno dei maggiori ...