Moving in some high-risk pathways between Saturn and its inner rings, it successfully got closer to the planet to fulfil its ...

These are the closest-ever images of Saturn. They were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft just days before it crashed into Saturn. The results are spectacular. Shortly after Cassini took its final ...

The Cassini spacecraft is now feeling ... scientists decided to send the spacecraft into Saturn, allowing it to burn up harmlessly. This crash is designed to save the world's potentially habitable ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Cassini will actually crash into Saturn in order to protect the planet's possibly water-filled moons from any contamination from the spacecraft. Before its death dive, however, Cassini is going to ...

To prevent Cassini from crashing into and contaminating any of those hidden oceans, the space agency has directed the robot, which is running out of fuel, onto a crash course with Saturn.

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This brings us to the Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn between 2004 and its final fiery crash into the planet in 2017. Saturn orbits the sun at 10 AU. Due to a quirk of MOND, the gravity from ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

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On 15 September, we say farewell to this game-changing mission and crash the probe into Saturn’s toxic clouds, protecting these moons from contamination. All images courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech ...