Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans ...

Cassini was the last of NASA’s big missions to the outer solar system. It followed in the footsteps of Voyagers 1 and 2, which visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the late 1970s and ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

Contact has been lost with the Cassini spacecraft after it completed a “death dive” into the upper atmosphere of Saturn and transmitted its final signal, according to NASA.

New research reveals more about why Saturn's large moon tilts, a puzzle that has intrigued scientists for decades.

Cassini’s demise is an important part of NASA’s mission plan. After all this time, the vehicle is running low on fuel, which means NASA will eventually lose the ability to maneuver it.

They called it a wake, but the loved one they had come to mourn wasn’t a person. It was the Cassini spacecraft, the robotic explorer that had spent the last 13 years unlocking the mysteries of ...

NASA’s Cassini orbiter has spent the last 13 years studying Saturn and its moons, but this year, it has to die. Its fuel has run out. With each orbit, it swoops lower and lower, skimming through ...

For the more than 5,000 people who worked on the Cassini spacecraft mission, Friday brings a thrilling – and perhaps traumatic – end to a decades-long journey.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been ready to die for a very long time. The mission, which launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons, was supposed to end in 2008.Then it was supposed to call ...