Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans ...

Space Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn. From magical rings to loony moons to giant polar hurricanes, in 13 years orbiting Saturn the Cassini probe has exposed many wonders.

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA scientists just received their last message from the Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into Saturn early Friday morning. Those final bits of data signal the end of one of ...

Cassini, the NASA spacecraft whose breakthrough discoveries about Saturn and its many moons revolutionized the search for life beyond Earth, disintegrated Friday morning in the skies above the ...

Cassini’s destruction has been in the making for nearly a decade now. The spacecraft was launched in 1997, and it was the first probe intended to orbit and thoroughly study the Saturn system.

On September 15, 2017, the 20-year Cassini mission ended in a "death dive" into Saturn's upper atmosphere, collecting data until the spacecraft broke apart and became part of the planet it set out ...

Cassini, the NASA spacecraft that expanded the search for life beyond Earth, dies in Saturn’s sky. As NASA’s Cassini mission flames out over Saturn, scientists mark bittersweet end of mission.

Cassini will make its first pass at around 5AM ET on April 26th, collecting data and using its antenna as a shield against any particles. The spacecraft will then send a message to Earth nearly a ...

The Cassini spacecraft is going where no ship has gone before: On Wednesday, it begins a series of dives into the space between Saturn and its magnificent rings.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft re-established contact with ground controllers shortly before 3 a.m. ET after passing through the gap between Saturn and the planet's rings.

The stream of scientific mysteries will begin drawing to a close Sept. 14, when Cassini sends its last images to Earth. At 4:37 am ET on Sept. 15, the ship will begin what NASA calls “the final ...