Explore how NASA's Cassini mission fundamentally changed our understanding of Saturn.

SEE ALSO: Cassini says goodbye with its final photos from Saturn "We have loss of signal," one of the mission managers said, as Cassini's final dispatch from Saturn ended. Its fiery death comes as ...

On April 26, the Cassini spacecraft flew closer to Saturn than ever before — between the gap that separates the planet from its rings. Since then, Cassini has been transmitting dozens of images ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn in 2004. For the last 13 years, it has seen sights on Saturn that no other spacecraft has shown us.

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 ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

Cassini, a robotic spacecraft the size of a small school bus, was orbiting Saturn on December 5, 2010, just as it had been every day for more than six years, when one of its dozen instruments went ...

more Cassini was an incredibly successful mission for NASA, with the spacecraft outliving its expected mission timeline and punctuating its time at Saturn with a series of incredibly risky dives ...

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Todeskuss des Ringplaneten "Cassini" stürzt sich in den Saturn 14.09.2017, 09:57 Uhr Die Raumsonde "Cassini" ist nach dem französischen Astronomen Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) benannt.