After 20 years and countless orbits, NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn has come to its fiery end. The space agency has confirmed that its Deep Space Network (DSN) tracking station at Canberra lost all ...

After examining Saturn from up close for 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft is ending its long career with a boom — and there's an important reason why. Friday morning (Sept. 15), Cassini will complete ...

After 20 years spent traveling the solar system and 13 years spent circling Saturn, the remarkable Cassini mission is coming to a bittersweet end. On Friday, Sept. 15, mission scientists and ...

One of the last images taken by the Cassini spacecraft was this view of the moon Enceladus setting behind the limb of Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ended a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (CNN) --Contact has been lost with the Cassini spacecraft after it completed a "death dive" into the upper atmosphere of Saturn and transmitted its final signal, according to NASA ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is quickly nearing the end of its mission — and its life. Already in the aptly named Grand Finale portion of its mission, Cassini has begun its final five orbits around the ...

Capt. Scott Kelly wasn't kidding when he famously quipped that "space is hard." Even getting to the launch pad can prove to be a daunting challenge. Take the Cassini mission to study Saturn, for ...