Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn for more than 10 years, capturing images of its rings and moons in never-before-seen detail. Since at least 2019, posts on social media have shared a ...

The pioneering probe was the first to orbit Saturn; launched in 1997 and inserted into orbit in 2004, it revolutionized our understanding of the ringed planet. Cassini revealed the structure of Saturn ...

In 10 days, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will nose-dive into Saturn and burn up in the planet’s atmosphere. RJ ESPAÑOL VIEW E-EDITION. 99¢ for 6 mos. Support local journalism.

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA scientists just received their last message from the Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into Saturn early Friday morning. Those final bits of data signal the end of one of ...

The spacecraft began its 2.2 billion–mile journey 20 years ago and has been hanging out with Saturn since 2004. Later this year, Cassini will say goodbye and become part of Saturn when it ...

The probe beamed its final photos of Saturn to Earth on Thursday. There won't be more like them until we decide to go back. Cassini truly was a flagship mission. Powered by plutonium (which led to ...

Over the course of its 13-year mission, Cassini has executed 2.5 million commands, carried out 360 engine burns, completed 162 targeted flybys of Saturn's moons, taken more than 453,000 images and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

A viral TikTok video published on Dec. 21, 2024, claimed the image was the "last photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft before its disintegration in Saturn's atmosphere." At the time of this ...