On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraftmade its final journey into the heart of Saturn, marking the end of an extraordinary 13-year mission dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the gas ...

Just six months after the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, its cameras caught something spectacular. It was Jan. 16, 2005, and Cassini was zipping past Enceladus, a bright, tiny moon just 313 ...

After a 20-year voyage around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed its mission with a final plunge into the planet's atmosphere. Cassini was the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn giving NASA ...

Cassini's last photos show the location where the spacecraft would plummet into Saturn's atmosphere. Cassini took this photo of Saturn on Sept. 14, 2017 at 12:46 p.m. PDT (3:45 p.m. EDT; 1946 GMT).

NASA's Cassini probe at Saturn will be destroyed on September 15. The mission is ending to prevent losing control of the robot and contaminating watery moons that might harbor alien life. A rare and ...

Join us as we count down to Cassini's grand finale, and look back over what the spacecraft has discovered during its mission to Saturn ...

The atmospheric carbon dioxide was thought to be the result of the oxidation of oxygen molecules in the exosphere. As a consequence of this discovery, Rhea became the first Saturnian moon, and only ...