Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans have viewed the universe beyond Earth. These spacecraft are dedicated to ...

Contact has been lost with the Cassini spacecraft after it completed a "death dive" into the upper atmosphere of Saturn and transmitted its final signal, according to NASA. Cassini, NASA's 13-year ...

Cassini completed a daring dive through the moon’s erupting plume on Oct. 28, passing just 30 miles ... The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA ...

With its flyby of Phoebe, the Cassini spacecraft has completed the first satellite flyby in its four-year tour of the Saturn system. NASA’s Deep Space Network received confirmation at 7:52 a.m ...

During the final year of NASA's Cassini mission before it completed a "death dive" into Saturn's atmosphere in 2017, the spacecraft gathered as much data as possible about the planet's rings.

A complete and in-depth site about the Cassini orbiter and Huygens probe. Updated daily, it includes an overview of NASA’s mission in launching Cassini, the construction of the actual orbiter ...

The mission began in 1997 when Cassini was launched on a trip to Saturn to look for evidence of water and capture the first close-up views of the planet. The spacecraft arrived in 2004, and probed ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission blasted off 10 years ago this week, with the goal of putting a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. Skip to main content. Scientific American. October 16, 2007.

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol for the first time. By analyzing data from the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint venture ...

Drainage patterns, possible shorelines, tantalizing dark patches and a surface strewn with ice boulders greeted Earthbound watchers on Jan. 14 as the European Space Agency's Huygens probe, via the ...

A new study of radar experiment data from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has yielded fresh insights related to the makeup and activity of the liquid hydrocarbon seas near the north pole of ...

Exploring Saturn: The Cassini Mission After a 2.2 billion-mile journey that took 7 years, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft entered the orbit of Saturn, and immediately began sending back data -- the ...