NASA is preparing to revive the dormant Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn, which ceased science operations three weeks ago due to a computer glitch. Cassini mission controllers plan to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years for ...

The largest moon of Saturn is bigger than Mercury, yet for all its conspicuousness, scientists don't know exactly how it came ...

Netherlands-based director Sander van den Berg has taken images from NASA's Cassini orbiter and Voyager spacecraft to create an amazing new video of Saturn entitled "Outer Space." At first, the ...

NASA's workhorse Saturn orbiter Cassini has just beamed back stunning new views of the ringed planet's dazzling moons, including the probe's closest-ever pass over the ice geysers of Enceladus. The ...

Before plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017, the Cassini spacecraft made a series of daring close passes between the planet and its rings. During those final orbits, its instruments collected ...

After a 20-year voyage, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is poised to dive into Saturn this week to become forever one with the exquisite planet. There's no turning back: Friday it careens through the ...

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NASA's Cassini probe has been studying Saturn and its moons since 2005, and it's almost time for the spacecraft to call it a day. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...