Cassini wasn’t just ... sending back the most detailed images of Saturn’s rings, it revolutionized our understanding of the outer solar system. But its final moments were the most dramatic ...

They were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft just days before it crashed into Saturn. The results are spectacular. Shortly after Cassini took its final image, it flew into Saturn's atmosphere ...

In perhaps the most poignant images from this final set, you see Enceladus -- a moon thought to have a subsurface ocean beneath its icy crust -- setting behind Saturn as Cassini looks on at it one ...

In December, the spacecraft skimmed by Saturn's outer rings, snapping some of the most detailed images we have ever seen. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science NASA's Cassini ...

SEE ALSO: Cassini says goodbye with its final photos from Saturn "We ... Europa planned in the coming years, NASA has no missions on the books back to Saturn or other planets in the outer solar ...

For NASA, Cassini’s daring and risky Grand ... “Only by getting so close to Saturn in Cassini’s final orbits were we able to gather the measurements to make the new discoveries,” said ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ... valuable data and photos the entire time. Once it has completed its daring adventure, on its last orbit it will cruise right into Saturn’s atmosphere where ...

Linda Spilker, Nasa's project scientist on the Cassini mission, explains the last images the probe sent back before plunging into Saturn and destroying itself. The spacecraft had run out of fuel ...