PASADENA, Calif.— And just like that, it was gone. NASA received its last data transmission from the Cassini spacecraft at 4:55:46 a.m. PDT (7:55:46 a.m. EDT, 1146 GMT) today (Sept. 15), before losing ...

After 20 years spent traveling the solar system and 13 years spent circling Saturn, the remarkable Cassini mission is coming to a bittersweet end. On Friday, Sept. 15, mission scientists and ...

This Friday, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will come to a similar end. At 6:31 A.M., Eastern Daylight Time, after two decades of flight and thirteen years of spectacular discovery around Saturn, and with ...

It's been almost 20 years since Nasa's Cassini mission launched into space. In this time the spacecraft has traveled more than one billion miles and helped reveal the secrets of Saturn and its moons.

NASA’s Cassini mission has made its “death plunge” into the swirling clouds of Saturn after 20 years of exploring the planet and its moons. It’s been amazingly successful, making headlines with ...

One of the last images taken by the Cassini spacecraft was this view of the moon Enceladus setting behind the limb of Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ended a ...