CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn on Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of 20 years.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's Cassini spacecraft is no more: It disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday, following a remarkable journey of 20 years. Confirmation of Cassini's ...

Cassini detected fresh organic compounds in ice plumes from Enceladus’s subsurface ocean, strengthening the moon’s potential ...

On September 15, 2017, the Cassini mission came to a fiery end as the unmanned deep space probe slammed into the atmosphere of Saturn. Now, thanks to telemetry sent by the spacecraft during its final ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been vaporized. The probe dove into Saturn’s upper atmosphere this morning, and NASA lost the vehicle’s signal at 7:55AM ET, indicating it had broken apart irrevocably ...

Although we are learning more than ever before about the other planets in our solar system, there are still plenty of mysteries to unwind. One open question is why exactly the atmosphere of gas giants ...

The spacecraft is set to plunge to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in April. — -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning a series of "ring grazing" orbits today to study Saturn's rings and moons ...

At 7:55 a.m. EST on Friday, September 15, NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, received the final whisper of data from the Cassini spacecraft as it entered Saturn’s ...

Although NASA's Cassini spacecraft came to a historic end back in September, new information and images continue to be released from its nearly two-decade long journey. In the latest image, published ...

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. The spacecraft deliberately ...

The science team responsible for NASA's Cassini spacecraft has released a gallery of the stand-out images from the probe's final hectic year exploring the Saturnian system. The collection shows off ...

The Cassini spacecraft was destroyed at Saturn on Friday around 6:32 a.m. ET. It took more than an hour for the probe's last signal to reach antennas on Earth. NASA's $3.26 billion mission was ended ...