On September 15, 2017, the Cassini mission came to a fiery end as the unmanned deep space probe slammed into the atmosphere of Saturn. Now, thanks to telemetry sent by the spacecraft during its final ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of 20 years.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been vaporized. The probe dove into Saturn’s upper atmosphere this morning, and NASA lost the vehicle’s signal at 7:55AM ET, indicating it had broken apart irrevocably ...
On a pale morning in January 2005, a metallic object the size of a dishwasher descended through the thick haze of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Moving at just over four meters per second, the Huygens ...
Light a blunt or cigar or finely scented candle in the name of our old friend Cassini. The NASA spacecraft took its final (and presumably fiery) plunge straight into Saturn's atmosphere Friday, ...
Although we are learning more than ever before about the other planets in our solar system, there are still plenty of mysteries to unwind. One open question is why exactly the atmosphere of gas giants ...
Saturn’s peaceful beauty invites the Cassini spacecraft for a closer look in this natural color view, taken during the spacecraft’s approach to the planet. By this point in the approach sequence, ...
Although NASA's Cassini spacecraft came to a historic end back in September, new information and images continue to be released from its nearly two-decade long journey. In the latest image, published ...
Cassini, the NASA spacecraft whose breakthrough discoveries about Saturn and its many moons revolutionized the search for life beyond Earth, disintegrated Friday morning in the skies above the ringed ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's Cassini spacecraft is no more: It disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday, following a remarkable journey of 20 years. Confirmation of Cassini's ...
As NASA's Cassini dove close to Saturn in its final year, the spacecraft provided intricate detail on the workings of Saturn's complex rings, new analysis shows. As NASA's Cassini dove close to Saturn ...