After 13 years in orbit around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is about to plunge itself into the planet's atmosphere and disintegrate. NASA decided to put an end to the mission on Friday ...

NASA’s Cassini probe has entered the final phase of its 13-year mission to Saturn, executing the first in a series of five “ultra-close” dives through the planet’s atmosphere. The ...

After a seven-year, 2.2 billion-mile journey, the Cassini spacecraft will fire its engine Wednesday night to slow down, allowing itself to be captured by Saturn's gravity. The maneuver will ...

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 ...

Thirteen years after reaching Saturn, NASA's nuclear-powered Cassini spacecraft raced through its 294th and final orbit Thursday, collecting priceless data while hurtling toward a kamikaze-like ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA scientists just received their last message from the Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into Saturn early Friday morning. Those final bits of data signal the end of one of ...

On Nov. 30, NASA’s Cassini mission will begin the ring-grazing final chapter of its career at Saturn, one that will end with the spacecraft’s terminal plunge into the gas giant’s unforgiving ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been snapping amazing photos of Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017. See some of Cassini's latest spectacular photos of the Saturn system here. SHOWN HERE ...

NASA’s Cassini probe has entered the final phase of its 13-year mission to Saturn, executing the first in a series of five “ultra-close” dives through the planet’s atmosphere. The ...