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 ...

Enceladus, no wider than Arizona, is an icy moon of Saturn. It has a global subsurface ocean. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has ...

On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraftmade its final journey into the heart of Saturn, marking the end of an extraordinary 13-year mission dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the gas ...

NASA continues to uncover new discoveries wherever it deploys its technology. A few years ago, it discovered that the Cassini ...

After a 20-year voyage around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed its mission with a final plunge into the planet's atmosphere. Cassini was the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn giving NASA ...

After 20 years in the cold void of space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ran out of fuel and crashed into Saturn. This sounds like a very expensive failure by NASA—-but it is NOT!, here’s why: This year, ...

Photo cuts through haze to reveal some of the features on moon's surface. This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, bolstering the likelihood that the ocean world may harbor conditions ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of ...

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft turned its imaging cameras to Earth, scientists, engineers and visitors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., gathered to wave at our robotic photographer ...

Rhea has been heavily bombarded by impacts during its history. In this Cassini image the moon displays what may be a relatively fresh, bright, rayed crater near Rhea’s eastern limb. Rhea is 1,528 ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is often described as one of the most Earth-like places in the solar system. It features vast river networks, expansive lakes, and a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere. But ...