NASA's Cassini probe is plunging to its death. The nuclear-powered spacecraft has orbited Saturn for 13 years, and sent back hundreds of thousands of images. The photos include close-ups of the ...

Moving in some high-risk pathways between Saturn and its inner rings, it successfully got closer to the planet to fulfil its ...

The Cassini spacecraft is now feeling the inexorable tug of Saturn's gravity as the bus-sized spacecraft is being pulled down into the giant planet's cloud tops. Even though the probe -- which has ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

This brings us to the Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn between 2004 and its final fiery crash into the planet in 2017. Saturn orbits the sun at 10 AU. Due to a quirk of MOND, the gravity from ...

The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put ...

Cassini reveals Saturn's secrets For the last 13 years, the Cassini Orbiter has been sending ground-breaking scientific data back to Earth. Transforming our understanding of Saturn, its rings and ...

SEE ALSO: Cassini, one of humanity's best spacecraft, is officially dead at Saturn Even though the mission's end was planned for years, it didn't make it any easier to watch lines of data come ...