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Oleg Cassini Estate Auction: A Close-up of the Designer’s Life, Career and Collection

Oleg Cassini’s former Oyster Bay estate is all locked up — literally. Access to its gated entrance requires security clearance and the removal of a shiny chain and padlock. Much of the grass is ...
Labroots

Cassini data show Enceladus stirs Saturn's magnetosphere

How can Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, influence its much larger parent planet? This is what a recent study published in the ...
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This is what NASA’s Cassini probe found just before it was lost

Before plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017, the Cassini spacecraft made a series of daring close passes between the planet and its rings. During those final orbits, its instruments collected ...
Wired

Watch Live as NASA's Cassini Finally Faces Its Fiery Doom

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been ready to die for a very long time. The mission, which launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons, was supposed to end in 2008. Then it was supposed to call it ...
The New Yorker

Saying Goodbye to Cassini, the NASA Mission That Transformed Our Understanding of the Solar System

This Friday, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will come to a similar end. At 6:31 A.M., Eastern Daylight Time, after two decades of flight and thirteen years of spectacular discovery around Saturn, and with ...
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Oleg Cassini Estate Auction Rings Up $1.3 Million

OLEG’S SELLOUT CROWD: Even 13 years after his death, Oleg Cassini’s name managed to create a sellout estate sale at Doyle on Thursday. The all-day event ran for nine-and-a-half hours and the lots sold ...
Futurism

This Week, We Will Officially Say Goodbye to Cassini. Here’s What We’ve Learned.

When Cassini completes its grand finale on September 15, it would be exactly a month short of its 20th anniversary in space. Launched on October 15, 1997 by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and ...
Los Angeles Times

Epic storms, new moons and worlds that might host life: Here are Cassini’s greatest discoveries

Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004, and it wasted no time making scientific discoveries. The NASA spacecraft witnessed epic storms and discovered new moons. Most importantly, its observations of ...
Astronomy

25 years ago: Cassini-Huygens launches for Saturn

The Cassini-Huygens mission, a collaborative endeavor between NASA, ESA, and ASI, was an unprecedented project designed for sustained exploration of Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, following ...
ABC7

NASA's Cassini ready for final plunge toward Saturn

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (KABC) -- NASA calls its Cassini spacecraft "the ultimate teacher ready for retirement." After circling Saturn for 13 years collecting valuable data, mission control at NASA's Jet ...
Fast Company

Cassini’s best images: Here’s a look back at the NASA spacecraft’s most stunning photos

One of the greatest photographers in the solar system is about to hang up its camera. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken nearly 400,000 images during its slow sojourn to Saturn, documenting its 53 or ...