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

The Cassini spacecraft, which launched almost 20 years ago, ended its mission early Friday morning when it dove directly into Saturn's atmosphere, burning up like a meteor.

While the Cassini spacecraft is dead — engineers deliberately plunged it into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, ... James Webb Space Telescope sees a celestial Venn diagram around a dying star.

The mission began in 1997 when Cassini was launched on a trip to Saturn to look for evidence of water and capture the first close-up views of the planet. The spacecraft arrived in 2004, and probed ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Linda Spilker checks the clock: 12:04 p.m. As the NASA scientist sits in this crowded conference room on the Caltech campus, the aging Saturn orbiter Cassini is flying past ...

The Cassini Spacecraft Will Soon Commit Suicide on Saturn. Here’s What to Know. 3 minute read. NASA. By Mahita Gajanan. August 29, 2017 5:09 PM EDT.

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 ...

The $3.3 billion mission – paid for by NASA and European partners – launched from Earth in 1997. After a long journey though the solar system, Cassini spent a remarkable 13 years circling Saturn.

Even in its final dives around Saturn, NASA ’s Cassini spacecraft is still sending us remarkable new views of this gorgeous gas giant. The GIF below is made of 21 images taken by Cassini’s ...

The Cassini mission to Saturn may be over, but scientists and the rest of humanity will be poring over images from the spacecraft for years to come. Below is the very last picture Cassini took of ...

The Cassini spacecraft launched on Oct. 15%2C 1997%2C entered orbit around Saturn on July 1%2C 2004 16 European countries and the United States have participated in its mission Cassini%27s mission ...