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NASA's Cassini probe has bid farewell to Titan and is now on its way to a fatal encounter with Saturn. At 12:04 pm PDT (3:04 pm EDT), the unmanned orbiter flew by Saturn's largest moon at an altitude ...

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Dutifully beaming back data to the very end, NASA's long-lived Cassini probe slammed into Saturn's atmosphere at some 77,000 mph Friday, blazing like a shooting star as it was ripped apart and ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission, a collaborative endeavor between NASA, ESA, and ASI, was an unprecedented project designed for sustained exploration of Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, following ...

Less than one week after observers around the world watched the historic transit of Venus, news from the solar system again demands our attention. On Friday, June 11, the Cassini space probe hurtled ...

For about 60 seconds, Cassini used the last reserves of its rocket fuel to fire its thrusters, fighting the upper atmosphere of Saturn as it descended to its fate. After receiving a "goodbye kiss" ...

All good things must come to an end. For NASA’s Cassini orbiter—its fuel dwindling after 13 years exploring Saturn, along with the planet’s sprawling rings and dozens of icy moons—the end will come ...

NASA's Cassini probe survived its second pass between Saturn and its innermost rings earlier this week, giving scientists increasing confidence the region between the rings and the cloud tops is clear ...

The Cassini spacecraft has snapped its penultimate pics of Saturn’s moon Titan. This image, shot September 11 as Cassini swung past the moon at a distance of about 119,049 kilometers, shows Titan’s ...