Cassini wasn’t just a spacecraft ... back the most detailed images of Saturn’s rings, it revolutionized our understanding of the outer solar system. But its final moments were the most ...

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 ...

In fact, it's the closest any spacecraft has ever come to Saturn — just 1,900 miles from the beautiful planet's cloud tops. Even more exciting, Cassini has already transmitted images of what it ...

Linda Spilker, Nasa's project scientist on the Cassini mission, explains the last images the probe sent back before plunging into Saturn and destroying itself. The spacecraft had run out of fuel ...

Caption Artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. These plumes are much like geysers and expel a combination of ...

Again, Cassini was in the right place at the right time. “Even now, I look at those [images] and think, ‘How lucky we were to find this!’ ” says Carolyn Porco, head of the mission’s ...

On Friday, as the long-running Cassini mission at Saturn came to a close, mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California couldn't help but get a little teary as they said ...

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 ...