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 ...

The spacecraft is set to plunge to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in April. — -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning a series of "ring grazing" orbits today to study Saturn's rings and moons ...

Cassini detected fresh organic compounds in ice plumes from Enceladus’s subsurface ocean, strengthening the moon’s potential ...

NASA’s Cassini mission officially ended way back in 2017. It was then that the spacecraft plunged into Saturn, destroying itself in a blaze of glory, but the incredible wealth of data it sent back ...

Tomorrow, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will be sent crashing into the atmosphere of Saturn. But why? Couldn’t we just leave it orbiting the gas giant? Well no, not really. The rest of this article is ...

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The Cassini spacecraft is about to embark on a new mission phase that will give it a ringside seat at Saturn — literally. After concentrating on flybys of the stately planet’s moons since arriving ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its sojourn at Saturn on Sept. 15, with a plunge in the atmosphere of the ringed planet. The mission began in 1997 when Cassini was launched on a trip to Saturn to look ...

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch from Cape Canaveral, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is once again at the center of scientific attention. Its latest discoveries about the ringed ...

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 ...

Scientists have revealed fascinating details about Saturn's rings in a study which documents some of the closest ever observations of these majestic features. The data was collected by NASA's Cassini ...