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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Enceladus and Tethys fall into line at relatively similar distances from Cassini. Enceladus is 313 miles, or 504 kilometers, across, and Tethys measures 660 miles, or 1,062 kilometers, across. See ...

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft showed us a new view of the Saturn system. But it took a long road to get there, from mission development to its launch 25 years ago.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In 2005, it released the European Space Agency-built Huygens probe into the atmosphere of one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, to find a world with rivers, lakes and seas. Equinox In 2008, the Cassini ...

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 ...