The Cassini spacecraft launched in 1997. It has been exploring Saturn and its many moons since it arrived at the ringed planet in 2004. Cassini followed along as Saturn went through its alien ...

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Some of the researchers on the Cassini project have been with the mission since it began, as it launched to space in 1997, when Bill Clinton was ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been hanging out in space for two decades, with well ...

We were launched in 1997 ... there’s nothing we can do about it." Q. How will the Cassini mission end? "The end of the mission takes place on 15 September...I’m going to go to Caltech ...

Bob Mitchell of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the Program Manager for the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission, whose flight team took home this year's National Air and Space Museum Trophy for ...

Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended over a year ago, but data from the craft’s Grand Finale tour of the Saturnian system continues to allow scientists to unlock the ...

For example, the Cassini-Huygens mission was first proposed in 1982 and wasn't launched until 1997, during which time it endured several years of studies and swapped between a solo NASA mission or ...

Twenty years ago, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida ... On 15 September, we say farewell to this game-changing mission and crash the probe into Saturn’s toxic clouds, protecting ...

"Cassini's instruments were state-of-the-art at the time that spacecraft was built and launched; those instruments were also not meant to search for biosignatures or complex organic chemistry," Dr ...