Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

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

As Cassini’s tour of Saturn draws to a close, a look back at postcards from the probe. NASA's veteran spacecraft has revealed a lot about Saturn in its more than 20 years in space.

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

Cassini's Saturn Mission Goes Out In A Blaze Of Glory : The Two-Way The NASA probe that has spent the past 13 years making countless discoveries about the ringed planet and its moons was taken ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took seven years to travel nearly 2.2 billion miles to reach Saturn. But once it got there in 2004, it started taking some breathtaking pictures of the planet, its ...

The Cassini spacecraft pulled off its final mission after 20 years in space, and collected data as it crashed into Saturn’s atmosphere. Read all about Cassini's "Grand Finale" and its Sept. 15 ...

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 ...

Cassini arrived just after Saturn's northern winter solstice. It continued until a few months past northern summer solstice in May 2017. The interplanetary spacecraft was one of the largest, ...

Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004, and it wasted no time making scientific discoveries. The NASA spacecraft witnessed epic storms and discovered new moons. Most importantly, its observations of ...

If they were, NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn could have racked up a few of the honors over the past 20 years before its planned demise last Friday, when it took a fatal […] Skip to content ...

Cassini -- which has been studying Saturn and its dozens of moons on humanity's behalf for 13 years -- is nearing the end of its mission. But it's not quite finished with its daredevil-like feats.