NASA's Cassini spacecraft is getting a grand but hilarious opera send-off before it plunges through Saturn's atmosphere and vaporizes Friday. An actor from TV's old "Star Trek: Voyager" series, Robert ...

Take a bow, Cassini. It’s been a marathon performance: 20 years in space, more than 200 orbits around Saturn, and hundreds of thousands of images of the giant planet, its splashy rings and its many ...

After the Cassini spacecraft's final dive into Saturn's atmosphere, the mission's scientists and engineers say they're proud of the little spacecraft that went far beyond expectations, sad to lose ...

Thirteen years after reaching Saturn, NASA's nuclear-powered Cassini spacecraft raced through its 294th and final orbit Thursday, collecting priceless data while hurtling toward a kamikaze-like plunge ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

After orbiting Saturn for more than 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is getting ready to say goodbye. On Monday (Aug. 14), Cassini made the first of five passes through Saturn's upper atmosphere, ...

A spectacular space exploration mission will end with a dramatic death. The Cassini spacecraft will self-destruct by plunging into Saturn's atmosphere, ultimately burning up and disintegrating. The ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took seven years to travel nearly 2.2 billion miles to reach Saturn. But once it got there in 2004, it started taking some breathtaking pictures of the planet, its rings, and ...

This Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, the long and successful Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons will come to an end when the spacecraft plunges into Saturn's cloud tops. NASA is doing this ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It might as well be the mission motto: "Saturn continues to surprise us." That's what Earl Maize, ...

Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a final command Friday morning to the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. Not long after, accounting for the vast distance the message traveled, ...

On the evening of September 11, 2017, Griffith Observatory hosted an enthusiastic group of observers. The assembled crowd looked through the 12-inch Zeiss refracting telescope, the centerpiece of the ...