Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oleg Cassini’s former Oyster Bay estate is all locked up — literally. Access to its gated entrance requires security clearance and ...

If all goes to plan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will beam new images of Saturn and its rings to Earth early Thursday, sharing data collected Wednesday from its first dive through the gap between the ...

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 ...

They clapped, though they didn’t smile. But what did you expect? Cassini, their beloved spacecraft, was dead. Confirmation that the explorer had indeed vaporized as planned in the cloud tops of Saturn ...

But Cassini’s team is also sacrificing the orbiter to avoid contaminating anything living in the Saturn system. Cassini’s discoveries on Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus---everything from complex ...

One of the greatest photographers in the solar system is about to hang up its camera. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken nearly 400,000 images during its slow sojourn to Saturn, documenting its 53 or ...

Cassini is no more. In the early hours of the morning, the long-lived spacecraft plunged into Saturn (intentionally) and broke apart, ending its 13-year run of exploring the sixth planet and it moons.

The Cassini mission to Saturn—which ends with a fiery plunge into the ringed planet’s atmosphere Friday morning—has been a triumph of exploration. Yielding a rich trove of scientific discoveries, ...

Cassini, the NASA spacecraft whose breakthrough discoveries about Saturn and its many moons revolutionized the search for life beyond Earth, disintegrated Friday morning in the skies above the ringed ...