No one can ever say that Cassini went quietly into its good night. At about 7:55 a.m. ET on Friday, mission controllers on Earth got official word that the Cassini spacecraft -- a joint operation ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

The Cassini space probe is due to end its 20 year mission to study Saturn, by crashing in to the planet on Friday 15 September. Michele Dougherty, The Royal Society, Research Professor ...

On Friday, as the long-running Cassini mission at Saturn came to a close, mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California couldn't help but get a little teary as they said ...