Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a European ...

After a 20-year voyage, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is poised to dive into Saturn this week to become forever one with the exquisite planet. There's no turning back: Friday it careens through the ...

Saturn’s magnetic shield does not sit where many scientists would expect. After combing through years of data from the Cassini spacecraft, researchers found that a key opening in Saturn’s ...

The only spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn burned up in the skies over Saturn Friday morning. RELATED: The Latest: NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn nears finale As of 7 a.m., NASA's spacecraft at ...

After a 20-year voyage around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed its mission with a final plunge into the planet's atmosphere. Cassini was the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn giving NASA ...

Have you ever wondered how satellites stay on course when they are millions of miles from Earth? Recently, a listener named Don reached out to us with that exact question.

After 13 years in orbit around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is about to plunge itself into the planet's atmosphere and disintegrate. NASA decided to put an end to the mission on Friday because ...

Today marks the NASA Cassini spacecraft's 15th year in space. Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on October 15, 1997 and has since charted more than 3.8 billion miles of ...

Around 7:30 a.m. Friday morning, planet Earth will lose the Cassini spacecraft’s signal just before it takes that final, fiery plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, marking the end of an amazing 13 years ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a still and partially sunlit Enceladus, the icy moon of Saturn, in this image released on Dec. 23, 2013. This image, taken on April 7, 2013, shows the side of ...