The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 spacecraft took seven years to travel nearly 2.2 billion miles to reach Saturn. But once it got there in 2004, it started taking some breathtaking pictures of the planet, its ...

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 ...