Cassini is the first extended mission at Saturn. Its landing probe, Huygens, successfully touched the moon Titan's surface in 2005.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the European Space Agency's Huygens probe were named after two famous astronomers: Giovanni Cassini and Christiaan Huygens.

The international Cassini spacecraft launched a probe Friday on a three-week free-fall toward Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan, where it will plunge into the hazy atmosphere and descend by ...

credit Image: NASADione and the Rings description Ten years ago Monday, NASA and the European Space Agency launched the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the ...

Less than a million miles away, the probe Huygens, which Cassini launched onto Saturn's moon Titan, will be the only evidence of its partner's journey.Huygens is probably in the very spot where ...

The Cassini spacecraft spent 13 years exploring the Saturn system. In 2005, it deployed a probe, known as Huygens, to the surface of Titan. Here is a selection of science highlights from the ...

European spaceflight controllers are now making their final communications with the Huygens probe, soon to be deployed on the last leg of its journey to Titan. Once it separates from the Cassini ...

Cassini’s mission was to investigate Saturn and its system, while Huygens’ was to explore Titan, the planet’s largest moon. The Huygens probe separated from Cassini in late December 2004.

It's so cold on Titan that its equator is nothing but dunes as far as the eye can see. But, they're not made of sand. They're made of little chips of water.

Crashing Cassini : 1A It's the end of an era in space exploration: the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft's 20-year mission to Saturn is about to end with a bang — and a ball of fire. You may not know ...

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, it ...