Space is a very big place, and as such, it's full of mysteries that scientists can't explain. Some of this is simply because it's impossible to fully observe, thanks to its sheer size and the ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

News The Cassini Mission May Be Over, but New Discoveries Abound New analysis of high-resolution images shows ring textures and disruptions within Saturn’s rings in unprecedented detail.

The Cassini spacecraft will take a plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere on Friday after spending 20 years flying through the solar system and commit one final act: self-destruction.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere in September 2017, after 20 years in space.

Cassini observes three of Saturn's moons set against the darkened night side of the planet. Seen here are Rhea, closest to Cassini, Enceladus to right of Rhea, and Dione, to the left of Rhea.

One of the greatest photographers in the solar system is about to hang up its camera. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken nearly 400,000 images during its slow sojourn to Saturn, documenting its ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took seven years to travel nearly 2.2 billion miles to reach Saturn. But once it got there in 2004, it started taking some breathtaking pictures of the planet, its ...

The NASA probe has been running rings around Saturn for 13 years—take a look at how its discoveries forever changed our view of the planet.

These two images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show how the spacecraft's perspective changed as it passed within 15,300 miles of Saturn's moon Pan on March 7. This was Cassini's closest-ever ...

The images featured in the video represent only one hour of Cassini's dramatic journey, which saw the probe fly within 1,900 miles (3,000 km) of Saturn's cloud tops – the closest any spacecraft ...