After a 20-year voyage, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is poised to dive into Saturn this week to become forever one with the exquisite planet. There's no turning back: Friday it careens through the ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will work hard to the very end. Cassini will plummet into Saturn's atmosphere early Friday morning (Sept. 15), ending its epic 13-year stint at the ringed planet with a bang.

Cassini skimmed closer than any previous spacecraft to the sixth planet from the Sun, and lived to tell the tale. Cassini skimmed closer than any previous spacecraft to the sixth planet from the Sun, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years for ...

Saturn’s magnetic shield does not sit where many scientists would expect. After combing through years of data from the Cassini spacecraft, researchers found that a key opening in Saturn’s ...

Today marks the NASA Cassini spacecraft's 15th year in space. Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on October 15, 1997 and has since charted more than 3.8 billion miles of ...