The end of the Cassini mission was a bittersweet event. On the one hand, the orbiter coasted through unexplored territory on Friday morning, collecting and transmitting data about Saturn that could ...

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) - For two decades, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been sending historical information about Saturn back to Earth and using Colorado-built instruments to help do it. The grand ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of 20 years. Confirmation of Cassini's expected ...

Dutifully beaming back data to the very end, NASA's long-lived Cassini probe slammed into Saturn's atmosphere at some 77,000 mph Friday, blazing like a shooting star as it was ripped apart and ...

After examining Saturn from up close for 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft is ending its long career with a boom — and there's an important reason why. Friday morning (Sept. 15), Cassini will complete ...

After 20 years and countless orbits, NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn has come to its fiery end. The space agency has confirmed that its Deep Space Network (DSN) tracking station at Canberra lost all ...

Thick in the night of Oct. 15, 1997, a Titan rocket shattered the darkness over Cape Canaveral and catapulted the six-ton Cassini spacecraft toward a historic rendezvous with Saturn. This week the ...