NASA's Cassini explored Saturn for over a decade, making incredible discoveries about its rings, storms, and moons. Relive the spacecraft's last moments. National Corporate funding for NOVA is ...

The spacecraft is set to plunge to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in April. — -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning a series of "ring grazing" orbits today to study Saturn's rings and moons ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It fundamentally altered our understanding of gas giants and their satellites and ...

After two decades in space, NASA’s Cassini mission ended with a dramatic plunge into Saturn – but not before sending back some of the most breathtaking images ever captured. In this video, we showcase ...

Clues about the transparency of Saturn's rings were in Cassini's data all along. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Undoubtedly, of ...

The highly saturated image was an artistic representation of Cassini's final mission. Actual images captured by the spacecraft were monochrome with far less detail. NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbited ...

Cassini's mission may have ended when it crashed into Saturn, but it is still delivering results. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon. Iapetus was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini in 1671. NASA’s Cassini craft flew by the ...

The Cassini mission, jointly operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, came to end in 2017 after the spacecraft deliberately plunged into Saturn with its fuel supplies rapidly diminishing.