Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans ...

The Cassini spacecraft was the first probe ever to cross between Saturn and its rings. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Today, Sept. 15, Cassini crashed into Saturn after 13 years spent orbiting ...

NASA says goodbye to Cassini probe, which improved our understanding of Saturn 01:52. Thirteen years after reaching Saturn, NASA's nuclear-powered Cassini spacecraft raced through its 294th and ...

Space Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn. From magical rings to loony moons to giant polar hurricanes, in 13 years orbiting Saturn the Cassini probe has exposed many wonders.

NASA's Cassini probe has orbited Saturn for over a decade. ... After 13 years in orbit around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is about to plunge itself into the planet's atmosphere and disintegrate.

"This monochrome view is the last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft," NASA explains of the ...

Launched in 1997, Cassini spent seven years traveling through space before inserting itself into Saturn’s orbit in July 2004. And since then, the spacecraft has boasted one major discovery after ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft marked 15 years in space Monday (Oct. 15), and the well-traveled probe won’t stop studying Saturn and its many moons anytime soon.

The Cassini spacecraft will die by diving into Saturn's atmosphere after more than a decade exploring the planet. Here's what to know On Sept. 15, Cassini will die by diving into Saturn's atmosphere ...

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

No spacecraft has ever explored this part of Saturn before, and Cassini was moving at about 77,000 miles per hour as it shot between the large planet and its rings.

The view was taken in visible light using the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of 394,000 miles (634,000 kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is about 11 miles (17 kilometers).