This image of Saturn's outer A ring features the small moon Daphnis and the waves it raises in the edges of the Keeler Gap. NASA NASA has published Cassini’s final images of Saturn before the ...

After 20 years in space and 13 years on the job as a scientific instrument orbiting Saturn, Cassini, the probe sent to explore the ringed planet and its moons, was retired at 7:55a.m. EST on Friday, ...

Dutifully beaming back data to the very end, NASA's long-lived Cassini probe slammed into Saturn's atmosphere at some 77,000 mph Friday, blazing like a shooting star as it was ripped apart and ...

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Cassini is ending its 13-year tour of the Saturn system with an intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn’s moons. In particular Cassini will avoid Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and ...

NASA’s Cassini probe has orbited Saturn since 2004, but it will take the final plunge into the heart of the gas giant on September 15. During its operating life, the data Cassini has transmitted back ...

Well, here we are. After 293 orbits of Saturn and more than 3,000 scientific papers, Cassini has finally sent its somber farewell. But it will leave behind it a vast and incredible legacy of discovery ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will have a dance unlike any other over the final months of its long journey. Cassini, launched in 1997, arrived at the Saturn system in 2004 to study the ringed planet and ...