Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is often described as one of the most Earth-like places in the solar system. It features vast ...

The highly saturated image was an artistic representation of Cassini's final mission. Actual images captured by the spacecraft were monochrome with far less detail. NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...

A model of NASA's Cassini spacecraft is seen at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, as Cassini nears the end of its 20-year mission in September of 2017. David McNew / Getty ...

“In so many ways, the Grand Finale orbits provided information that was totally unexpected,” said Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

“There are whole careers to be forged in the analysis of data from Cassini,” said Linda Spilker, the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement.

To achieve the latter, mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California programmed the flight computer to use Cassini's 0.5-newton (about the weight of a tennis ball ...

It was not yet dawn on the U.S. West Coast when the Cassini spacecraft sent its final message to Earth and began its suicide plunge into Saturn. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ...

Silva, who lives in Garden Grove, joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge in 1996 as a test engineer, shaking and rattling bits of Cassini to ensure it could survive the arduo ...

Cassini project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We are going so deep into the atmosphere the spacecraft doesn't have a chance of coming out." "These final images ...

Cassini, their beloved spacecraft, was dead. Confirmation that the explorer had indeed vaporized as planned in the cloud tops of Saturn was received at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory just before 5 ...

Tears, hugs and celebrations Friday marked the end of a 20-year mission to Saturn for the spacecraft Cassini. In mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California ...