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Cassini: Fiery grand finale of the mission to Saturn

Join us as we count down to Cassini's grand finale, and look back over what the spacecraft has discovered during its mission to Saturn

Europa

Space

Cassini's legacy: Where next in the search for alien life

Features

Final pictures from Cassini as probe smashes into Saturn

Space

Final pictures from Cassini as probe smashes into Saturn

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Cassini takes last look at the ring patterns made by mini moons

Space

Cassini takes last look at the ring patterns made by mini moons

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Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn

Space

Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn

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Tears for Cassini: why it's OK to well up over a lump of metal

Space

Tears for Cassini: why it's OK to well up over a lump of metal

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MD

Space

Cassini's Grand Finale: The ups and downs of our 20-year mission

Features

What Cassini saw...

Space

Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn

Features

Cassini to live-stream its final moments in Saturn’s atmosphere

Space

Cassini to live-stream its final moments in Saturn’s atmosphere

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Nine probes reached the outer solar system: Where are they now?

Space

Nine probes reached the outer solar system: Where are they now?

Features

Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

Space

Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

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artist's impression of planet nine

Space

Our sun probably didn’t steal Planet Nine from outer space

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Low-oxygen dwarf galaxy shows us how the early universe looked

Space

Low-oxygen dwarf galaxy shows us how the early universe looked

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The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years

Space

The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years

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Jupiter with one pole glowing blue

Space

Jupiter’s powerful aurora is surprisingly different from Earth’s

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Uranus

Space

Some of Uranus's small moons are doomed to collide

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An asteroid named after Florence Nightingale whizzed past Earth on 1 September

Earth

Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth in closest fly-by since 1890

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'Impossible' star explosions made by gas and solar wind pile-up

Space

'Impossible' star explosions made by gas and solar wind pile-up

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At 200000 light years across, NGC 1365 is one of the largest known galaxies

Space

Spiralling galaxy arms spread oxygen around for future planets

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Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

Space

Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

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Sea of Ligeia Mare

Space

Titan's conditions could be just right to power US-sized colony

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Saturn’s moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up

Space

Saturn’s moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up

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Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea

Space

Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea

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Titan's dunes seem to face the wrong way

Space

Electrified sand could explain Titan’s odd backward-facing dunes

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Saturn

Space

Cassini's grand finale will see orbiter plunge into Saturn

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Introduction: Cassini Huygens

Space

Introduction: Cassini Huygens

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