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New Study Believes That Life Could Possibly Exist on Saturn's Moon — Titan Titan's vitality, evaluated in a new assessment ...
The curious minds at Aperture unpack the incredible discoveries made by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its mission to ...
Cassini was the last of NASA’s big missions to the outer solar system. It followed in the footsteps of Voyagers 1 and 2, which visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the late 1970s and ...
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.
They called it a wake, but the loved one they had come to mourn wasn’t a person. It was the Cassini spacecraft, the robotic explorer that had spent the last 13 years unlocking the mysteries of ...
NASA’s Cassini orbiter has spent the last 13 years studying Saturn and its moons, but this year, it has to die. Its fuel has run out. With each orbit, it swoops lower and lower, skimming through ...
Cassini’s demise is an important part of NASA’s mission plan. After all this time, the vehicle is running low on fuel, which means NASA will eventually lose the ability to maneuver it.
The spacecraft Cassini will become a streak of ash when it tumbles into Saturn on Friday. Less than a million miles away, the probe Huygens, which Cassini launched onto Saturn's moon Titan, will ...
For the more than 5,000 people who worked on the Cassini spacecraft mission, Friday brings a thrilling – and perhaps traumatic – end to a decades-long journey.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been ready to die for a very long time. The mission, which launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons, was supposed to end in 2008.Then it was supposed to call ...