Cassini wasn’t just a spacecraft—it was one of the greatest space missions of all time. From discovering liquid oceans on Enceladus to sending back the most detailed images of Saturn’s rings ...

At about 7:55 a.m. ET on Friday, mission controllers on Earth got official word that the Cassini spacecraft -- a joint operation of NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency ...

Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended ... Cassini scientists did something with their craft that no spacecraft had done before; they flew Cassini through the rings of ...

and so NASA is ending the mission the best way it knows how: By making the craft dive repeatedly through the space between Saturn and its own rings until the time comes to crash Cassini right into ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

SEE ALSO: Cassini, one of humanity's best spacecraft, is officially dead at Saturn Even though the mission's end was planned for years, it didn't make it any easier to watch lines of data come ...

Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...

That’s why NASA sent the Mars rover to Jezero Crater, which contains a well-preserved delta. And it’s why researchers are so ...

What’s more, Cassini’s instruments detected organic ... and undergrads—he was already toying with an idea: a spacecraft mission to explore Enceladus. Last week Wray and his fellow Academy ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

More missions—19 since the 1960s—have made ... CICLOPS, Space Science Institute In this image, the Cassini spacecraft captured a near alignment of four of Saturn's moons (Titan, Dione ...