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 ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has successfully executed its daring dive, hurtling through the 1,500-mile-wide gap between Saturn and its rings.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dove inside Saturn’s rings for the first time on April 26, its first of 22 planned orbits close to the planet’s atmosphere.

The veteran Cassini spacecraft has pulled off an impressive high speed manoeuvre: passing between the narrow gap between Saturn's upper atmosphere and the planet's rings, traveling at speeds of ...

Before the Cassini-Huygens mission, scientists weren't sure how old Saturn's rings are, what they're made of, how they change, how thick they are, how fast they move, how big the ring particles ...

When the movie begins, Cassini was 45,000 miles above Saturn's polar clouds. By the time it ends, the spacecraft's altitude was down to 4,200 miles as it approached the plane of the rings. At ...

Though Saturn's rings will be visible again from Earth after March 2025, they'll temporarily disappear from view again in November when they appear to us at their narrowest.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its first dive between Saturn and its rings early Wednesday, as the final act in a nearly 20-year mission.

During its spectacular "Grand Finale" in 2017, Cassini performed 22 dives between Saturn and its rings, enabling scientists to determine the mass of both before the spacecraft plunged to its fiery ...

When NASA's Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn in 2004, it discovered that Saturn's rings appeared relatively bright and clean.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will shift its orbit on Saturday, preparing to dive between Saturn and its rings.