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 ...

Cassini-Huygens was an unprecedented foray into the unknown. It was not our first close-up glimpse of Saturn — the Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 probes had zipped by the planet in 1979 ...

Next week Cassini will make a course change to avoid following Huygens into Titan’s atmosphere. Huygens was designed for only a brief mission. After entering the atmosphere it will deploy a huge ...

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. In 2008, the Cassini mission ...

On Christmas Day 2004, the Cassini spacecraft flawlessly released ESA’s Huygens probe, passing another challenging milestone for Cassini-Huygens mission. But, with no telemetry data from Huygens ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The video begins with a wide-angle view of Saturn and Titan from the Cassini orbiter, which is still observing the ringed planet a decade later. Then it zooms in to views captured by the Huygens ...