The Cassini spacecraft, after spending 13 nearly flawless years revealing a complex, ringed gas giant along with its extensive array of enigmatic moons—and finding two worlds capable of supporting ...

This Friday evening (15 September) at about 9:54 pm AEST, CSIRO’s team at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex will capture the final signals from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft as it plunges into ...

On Thursday afternoon, NASA’s $3.3 billion Cassini spacecraft will capture one final image: A close-up of its eventual killer, the gas giant Saturn. Roughly 14 hours later, the spacecraft will fly ...

A new study built on six years of NASA Cassini spacecraft observations has found that Saturn’s magnetosphere, the giant ...

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 it ...

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — In the predawn hours on Friday, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft boldly went where no spacecraft has gone before: into the planet Saturn itself. As the spacecraft raced toward its end, ...

Goodbye, Cassini. And thank you. After a 20-year mission, 13 in orbit of Saturn, Cassini dived one last time for Saturn’s atmosphere. Over the course of its years at Saturn, Cassini has watched the ...

This image from SMART-1 was dedicated to the Cassini-Huygens mission team at the occasion of the European Geoscience Union conference in Vienna, April 2005, when new results from both missions were ...

This Friday evening (15 September) at about 9:54pm AEST, CSIRO's team at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex will capture the final signals from NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it plunges into ...