Right until its final moments, the spacecraft continued to send insightful images of 'The Ringed Planet.' The mission's ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. Taking advantage Venus's gravity, Cassini gained ...

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will today perform a flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, hoping to swoop through one of the many plumes of liquid coming from what is believed to be a subsurface ocean.

On April 22, Cassini carried out a Titan flyby that kicked off the "Grand Finale," putting the spacecraft on a trajectory that repeatedly carried it between the innermost rings and Saturn's cloud ...

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 ...

On April 22, Cassini carried out a Titan flyby that kicked off the "Grand Finale," putting the spacecraft on a trajectory that repeatedly carried it between the innermost rings and Saturn's cloud ...

Cassini’s final signals are due to register at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at 4:55 a.m. PT Friday, after making the 83-minute transit from Saturn to Earth at the speed of light.

Goodbye, Cassini. And thank you. After a 20-year mission, 13 in orbit of Saturn, Cassini dived one last time for Saturn’s atmosphere. Over the course of its years at Saturn, Cassini has watched ...

Cassini set off for Saturn on Oct. 15, 1997, and spent seven years looping around the solar system before it finally reached its destination. Since then, the two-story spacecraft has revealed that ...

Cassini’s last close flyby of Titan on April 21 curved the spacecraft’s orbit to send it on a series of dives between Saturn and its rings. That approach took the probe to about 979 kilometers ...