NASA's Cassini spacecraft will work hard to the very end. Cassini will plummet into Saturn's atmosphere early Friday morning (Sept. 15), ending its epic 13-year stint at the ringed planet with a bang.

Around 7:30 a.m. Friday morning, planet Earth will lose the Cassini spacecraft’s signal just before it takes that final, fiery plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, marking the end of an amazing 13 years ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help ...

Researchers have extracted new chemical details from nearly two-decade-old Cassini spacecraft data, identifying complex ...

An artistic representation of Cassini as it prepares for its final dive. (NASA) If we could hear the cosmos, our lives might be filled with endless unease. We can't, of course. Sound can only ...

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(Reuters) - NASA is preparing to send its long-lived Cassini probe into the unexplored region between Saturn and its rings for a scientific grand finale before the spacecraft's suicidal plunge into ...

PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented “in your face” flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12. The spacecraft, orchestrating its closest approach to date, ...

LOS ANGELES -- The international Cassini spacecraft went into safe mode this week after successfully passing over a Saturn moon that was the mysterious destination of a deep-space faring astronaut in ...