Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

These are the closest-ever images of Saturn. They were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft just days before it crashed into Saturn. The results are spectacular. Shortly after Cassini took its final ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cassini scientists did something with their craft that no spacecraft had done before; they flew Cassini through the rings of Saturn and into Saturn’s upper atmosphere multiple times. The daring ...

(CNN) -- The Cassini spacecraft's most recent flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, found that its upper atmosphere is full of complex organic material, a discovery that could help unlock the ...

more Cassini was an incredibly successful mission for NASA, with the spacecraft outliving its expected mission timeline and punctuating its time at Saturn with a series of incredibly risky dives ...

New findings contradict conventional belief that Saturn's rings were formed along with the planet about 4.5 billion years ago Saturn's rings are much younger than the planet itself, and likely ...

The Cassini space probe is due to end its 20 year mission to study Saturn, by crashing in to the planet on Friday 15 September. Michele Dougherty, The Royal Society, Research Professor ...