The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from June ... and understanding more about the planet's moons. The Huygens lander descended through the mysterious haze surrounding the moon and landed ...

NASA's Cassini mission came to a dramatic end last week after two decades in space. Cassini and Huygens forever changed the way scientists understand Saturn and its rings and moons. But the real ...

Two of Saturn's moons, Enceladus and Tethys, aligned themselves in what NASA called a ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission increased our understanding of the planet’s rings and moons Aaron Boorstein - Staff Contributor One of Cassini's last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a ...

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has spent nearly two decades in space collecting invaluable data and unprecedented close-ups of the Saturnian system. The craft has logged nearly 5 billion miles on ...

Cassini launched on October 15, 1997, as Cassini-Huygens. Huygens, in this case, refers to the name of the probe's original attached lander. It entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004.

Cassini (actually called the Cassini-Huygens Probe) launched with a wide array of goals. NASA wanted to learn about the composition and flow of the rings, the chemical nature of the planet's cloud ...

Titan, the second largest moon in our solar system, has been a main focus of the Cassini-Huygens mission over the past two decades. It has one of the thickest atmospheres in the solar system ...

Early tomorrow morning, NASA scientists will say goodbye to their Cassini spacecraft — a hardy probe the size of a school bus that has been orbiting the Saturn system for the last 13 years.

ESA built a Titan lander called Huygens that hitched a ride aboard Cassini and became the first spacecraft to touch down on a body in the outer solar system. In the 72 minutes it was operational ...

After 20 years in space, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft made its suicide plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15. For the team of scientists who began working on the project in the 1980s ...

A NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian Space Agency partnership produced Cassini-Huygens, the uncrewed, fully robotic interplanetary spacecraft set to explore Saturn and its many moons.