On April 26, NASA flew its Cassini spacecraft closer to Saturn than ever before ... million miles away — about 9 times farther than Earth is to the Sun — these close ups are nothing short ...

Cassini had run out of fuel and Nasa had determined that the probe should not be allowed simply to wander uncontrolled among Saturn and its moons. The loss of signal from the spacecraft occurred ...

What: This is about how long the bursts of light caused by Cassini's death will take to reach Earth. (Saturn will be some 932,822,000 miles away at that moment, according to "NASA's Eyes on the ...

These are the closest-ever images of Saturn. They were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft just days before it crashed into Saturn. The results are spectacular. Shortly after Cassini took its final ...

The Cassini probe has begun the final phase of its mission to Saturn. The satellite has executed ... Cassini will send all the data back to Earth during its next contact on Tuesday.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons. The spacecraft spent 13 years ...

Saturn will undergo a drastic change in the coming months, at least as the planet is seen from Earth. Here's what's going to ...

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Join us as we count down to Cassini's grand finale, and look back over what the spacecraft has discovered during its mission to Saturn ...

which made it harder to see when the dark side was facing Earth. More than 300 years later, NASA sent a spacecraft named Cassini to Saturn, and that Cassini took some pretty awesome photos of Iapetus.