NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back some of the most breathtaking images of Saturn in its final phase, marking the end of a mission that has provided unparalleled insights into the gas giant and ...

Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of ...

On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its final journey into the heart of Saturn, marking the end of an extraordinary 13-year mission dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the ...

Cassini will enter Saturn’s atmosphere approximately one minute earlier, at an altitude of about 1,190 miles (1,915 kilometers) above the planet’s estimated cloud tops (the altitude where the ...

Cassini launched on Oct. 15, 1997, then took seven years to voyage to the Saturnian system. NASA collided Cassini with Saturn in 2017 to prevent the spacecraft from ultimately slamming into one of ...

After analyzing data that Cassini collected in 2008, scientists saw a glowing patch of ultraviolet light emissions near Saturn’s north pole that marked the presence of a circuit, even though the ...

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.

Cassini witnessed three seasons play out in Saturn's northern hemisphere before the probe's intentional death plunge into the gas giant's atmosphere in September 2017: spring, summer and winter ...

NASA is preparing to send its long-lived Cassini probe into the unexplored region between Saturn and its rings for a scientific grand finale before the spacecraft's suicidal plunge into the planet ...