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

Cassini's Saturn Mission Goes Out In A Blaze Of Glory : The Two-Way The NASA probe that has spent the past 13 years making countless discoveries about the ringed planet and its moons was taken ...

After orbiting and capturing images of Saturn and its moons since 2004, Cassini’s mission will come to a close Friday with a plunge into the planet’s atmosphere, which will destroy the spacecraft.

The view was taken in visible light using the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of 394,000 miles (634,000 kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is about 11 miles (17 kilometers).

She has worked on the Cassini mission for more than two decades and is among the few people at NASA who ventured inside the craft as it was being built. “A perfect spacecraft,” she said, her ...

On September 15, 2017, the 20-year Cassini mission ended in a "death dive" into Saturn's upper atmosphere, collecting data until the spacecraft broke apart and became part of the planet it set out ...

Space Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn. From magical rings to loony moons to giant polar hurricanes, in 13 years orbiting Saturn the Cassini probe has exposed many wonders.

Cassini feels like part of their family too, said Freia, who works with the Deep Space Network that communicates with NASA’s far-flung spacecraft.

Cassini, the NASA spacecraft whose breakthrough discoveries about Saturn and its many moons revolutionized the search for life beyond Earth, disintegrated Friday morning in the skies above the ...

During the final year of NASA’s Cassini mission before it completed a “death dive” into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017, the spacecraft gathered as much data as possible about the planet’s ...

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.

Spilker, in red, with members of the Voyager team in 1989. After 13 years at Saturn, it seemed only fitting to send the Cassini spacecraft out “in a blaze of glory,” said Spilker, now lead ...