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 ...

Just six months after the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, its cameras caught something spectacular. It was Jan. 16, 2005, and Cassini was zipping past Enceladus, a bright, tiny moon just 313 ...

W hen we imagine alien life in books or on TV, we often think of planets like ours inhabited by extraterrestrial people. The ...

Cassini is ending its 13-year tour of the Saturn system with an intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn’s moons. In particular Cassini will avoid Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and ...

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft zoomed by two Saturn moons this week to take what scientists say are the last close-up views of the geyser-covered Enceladus and cratered Dione for several years. Cassini ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn’s north pole. This is the first hexagon movie of its kind, ...

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 ...

After 20 years in the cold void of space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ran out of fuel and crashed into Saturn. This sounds like a very expensive failure by NASA—-but it is NOT!, here’s why: This year, ...

The spacecraft is set to plunge to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in April. — -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning a series of "ring grazing" orbits today to study Saturn's rings and moons ...