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

The curious minds at Aperture unpack the incredible discoveries made by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its mission to ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

On July 1, 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission, a collaborative undertaking by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency, successfully reached Saturn. The spacecraft had ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

The Cassini spacecraft represented a landmark in deep-space exploration, combining advanced attitude control and navigation systems to achieve its ambitious mission objectives in the Saturnian ...

Earlier research had found that the rings of Saturn respond to vibrations within the planet. Saturn's interior vibrates at frequencies that cause slight variations in its gravitational field, and the ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

This adds to data taken back in 2004, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the European Space Agency's Huygens lander studied the moon.

The final snap was of Saturn itself, even capturing where the spacecraft would ultimately plunge to its final destination. Explaining that impressive final photo, NASA said: "This monochrome view is ...