NASA received its last data transmission from the Cassini spacecraft at 4:55:46 a.m. PDT (7:55:46 a.m. EDT, 1146 GMT) on September 15, before losing contact with the probe as it hurtled into Saturn’s ...

The Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, provided invaluable insights into the planet’s atmosphere, rings, and moons. Some of the key findings include: The age of the ...

WASHINGTON, 15th September, 2017 (WAM) -- A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

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A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

BBC Inside Science Cassini's finale; Science and Technology Select Committee; Crick's lecture; Cave acoustics Cassini’s Grand ...

This process occurs as particles from the rings are pulled into Saturn’s atmosphere by gravity. Consequently ... of years means that this vanishing act is a preview of a more permanent disappearance ...

Cassini-Huygens spent more than 13 years in wildly varied orbits around Saturn, allowing the spacecraft to pass near many of its moons, as well as execute a soft-landing of its Huygens lander on ...