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This NASA handout image depicts the Cassini unmanned spacecraft above Saturns rings

Cassini's last show was a spectacular one, suggests NASA

The Cassini spacecraft went into Saturn's atmosphere on 15 September after spending 20 years in deep space.

13 Oct 2017 9:02 AM GMT

This NASA handout image depicts the Cassini unmanned spacecraft above Saturns rings

Cassini spacecraft ends 13-year odyssey with fiery plunge into Saturn

Being low on fuel, NASA crashed it into Saturn to avoid any chance of it someday colliding with and contaminating nearby...

16 Sep 2017 3:34 AM GMT

This NASA handout image depicts the Cassini unmanned spacecraft above Saturns rings

NASA's Cassini spacecraft ends 20-year-long epic journey

The Cassini mission gave scientists an unprecedented view of the sixth planet from the Sun.

15 Sep 2017 12:39 PM GMT

This NASA handout image depicts the Cassini unmanned spacecraft above Saturns rings

Cassini readies one last plunge into Saturn

NASA's Cassini probe is counting its final hours before one last plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15.

14 Sep 2017 3:46 AM GMT

A team led by Frank Postberg and Nozair Khawaja they had identified fragments of large organic molecules in ice grains that were ejected from geysers through cracks in the moons icy exterior. (Photo: NASA)

New Cassini findings suggest Saturn moon could support life

The Cassini spacecraft first flew close to the ice-covered moon in 2005 as part of a mission to gather data on Saturn.

29 Jun 2018 3:05 AM GMT

Saturn (Photo: NASA)

Astrophysicists create music from Saturn's moons, rings

Cassini has been collecting data while orbiting Saturn since its arrival in 2004 and is now in the throes of a final...

31 Aug 2017 10:41 AM GMT

Saturn (Photo: NASA)

Astrophysicists make music from Saturn's moons, rings

It will plunge into the planet itself on September 15 to avoid contaminating any of its moons.

31 Aug 2017 8:33 AM GMT

This NASA handout image depicts the Cassini unmanned spacecraft above Saturns rings

Cassini preps for fiery plunge into Saturn after 13-year mission

Cassini will make the last of 22 farewell dives between the planet's rings and surface on Sept. 15.

31 Aug 2017 2:45 AM GMT

This NASA handout image depicts the Cassini unmanned spacecraft above Saturns rings

Cassini probe finds vast void between Saturn's rings

Scientists had hoped to find space dust in the region befor sending Cassini to Saturn forever.

6 May 2017 5:02 AM GMT

This NASA handout image depicts the Cassini unmanned spacecraft above Saturns rings

Saturn's moon Enceladus may have tipped over: study

Researchers found evidence that the moon's spin axis - the line through the north and south poles - has reoriented.

31 May 2017 9:01 AM GMT

Saturn (Photo: NASA)

Possible key ingredients of life discovered on Saturn's Moon

NASA finds Moon of Saturn has chemical that could form Membranes.'

30 July 2017 4:56 AM GMT

Cassini does not have on-board instruments capable of finding signs of life on any of Saturns moon or Saturn itself.

Saturn moon has necessary conditions to harbor life: NASA

NASA's old Cassini detects plumes of hydrogen molecules emanating from cracks in the surface of ocean-moon

14 April 2017 2:45 AM GMT