On Friday, Sept. 15, the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn will hurl itself into the gas giant, ending its twenty-year long mission. In its final moments, the spacecraft will collect unique data ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back some of the most breathtaking images of Saturn in its final phase, marking the end of ...

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).

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 ...

As Cassini’s tour of Saturn draws to a close, a look back at postcards from the probe. NASA's veteran spacecraft has revealed a lot about Saturn in its more than 20 years in space.

This image is one of Cassini's last views of Saturn from a distance, taken Oct. 28, ... Health and Environmental Reporting Program and an AB in mathematics from Brown University.

Cassini’s long mission made it possible to watch changes in Saturn’s dynamic ring system. Once about every 15 years, the Sun shines on the edge of the ring plane and northern and southern ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere on Friday, after 20 years in space. Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004, after a seven-year voyage. It was the first spacecraft to ...

One minute after the Cassini spacecraft plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere, it will die, but we won't know it until 83 minutes later. NASA will declare Cassini dead at 7:55 a.m. ET Friday morning ...

Overall, Saturn's atmosphere seems fairly static over time—even the surprising hexagon-shaped jet stream over the north pole has changed little, Cassini showed, since Voyager first sighted it.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn for more than 10 years, capturing images of its rings and moons in never-before-seen detail. Since at least 2019, posts on social media have shared a ...