Image of Saturn in Cassini spacecraft's 'final moments' isn't what it seems NASA published thousands of photographs of Saturn taken by the now-defunct satellite.

Today, Sept. 15, Cassini crashed into Saturn after 13 years spent orbiting the ringed planet. The bus-size spacecraft's instruments got hot, and its thrusters fired frantically to keep its antenna ...

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 ...

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. But before that happens, the probe will snap its ...

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

After 20 years and 5 billion miles traveled, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will plummet Friday into Saturn, but you can keep the mission alive with these NewsHour-crafted backgrounds for your ...

NASA's probe has spent the past 13 years orbiting Saturn, making a number of important discoveries along the way. On Friday, it will hurl itself into the planet's atmosphere and disintegrate.

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 ...

A spectacular space exploration mission will end with a dramatic death. The Cassini spacecraft will self-destruct by plunging into Saturn's atmosphere, ultimately burning up and disintegrating ...

NASA's Cassini space probe swooped in for its final close encounter with Dione -- one of Saturn's 62 known moons -- and took a stunning final image of the icy world.

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