Tagged: probe

Cassini Saturn probe preps for last hurrah

After orbiting Saturn for more than 13 years, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is getting ready to say goodbye. On Monday (Aug. 14), Cassini made the first of five passes through Saturn’s upper atmosphere, kicking off the last phase of the mission’s “Grand Finale.” After completing those...

NASA asteroid probe snaps farewell photo of Earth and Moon

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft now has some nice photos of home to look at during its long flight to a distant asteroid. OSIRIS-REx took a picture of the Earth-moon system on Monday (Sept. 25), a few days after performing a “gravity-assist” flyby of our planet that...

NASA’s planet-hunting probe joins search for alien life

NASA’s newest planet-hunter is taking part in the hunt for intelligent aliens. The space agency’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission will collaborate with the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), the teams announced on Wednesday. “It’s exciting that...