Although the probe has gone its science lives on ... it will continue its re-writing of the textbooks." The Cassini-Huygens mission is a joint endeavour of Nasa, and the European and Italian ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons. Scientists have watched a new band of the ring form and witnessed the changing of seasons on this gas ...

The investigation of the 5,150km-wide moon has been one of the outstanding successes of the Cassini mission. The spacecraft put a small robot called Huygens on its surface in 2005. It returned a ...

The Cassini spacecraft spent 20 years exploring Saturn, revealing incredible details about its rings, moons, and atmosphere.

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 ...

Huygens did not have the capability to transmit data back to Earth. And it relied on the Cassini spacecraft flying overhead. Instead of having to carry something big enough to transmit the billion ...

In over 40 flybys of Titan, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft managed to 'see' the surface of the moon with its radar experiment and an infrared camera. By the end of the mission, the Cassini orbiter had ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

It took almost 7 years for Cassini to reach Saturn. Another smaller spacecraft called Huygens hitched a ride with Cassini, and it was dropped off at Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Cassini spent 13 ...

For twenty-five years following the Voyager mission, scientists speculated about Saturn's largest moon, a mysterious orb clouded in orange haze. Finally, in 2005, the Cassini-Huygens probe ...