It all started in 1997, when NASA launched the Cassini–Huygens mission, which involved sending a dedicated spacecraft to orbit Saturn. Thanks to gravity assists from Venus, Earth and Jupiter, the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson was launched on the fifth flight to orbit of her career early on Wednesday, joined by crewmates from India ...

Scientists have detected mysterious, gyroscopic motion within the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan that appears to be completely independent from its surface rotation. Scientists from the University ...

The most in-depth study of Saturn was done by the Cassini-Huygens mission, which launched from Earth in 1997 and reached the ringed gas giant in 2004.

The Huygens probe has been released and is heading for Saturn's largest moon, Titan, scientists have confirmed. A signal that the robot lab had separated from its mothership, Cassini, was received by ...

Gilbraith referenced the Cassini–Huygens mission, launched in 1997 to observe Saturn and its satellites. “We got to see a lot of different angles of the rings and the alignments from Cassini,” he said ...

For example, the Cassini-Huygens mission was first proposed in 1982 and wasn't launched until 1997, during which time it endured several years of studies and swapped between a solo NASA mission or ...

The paper is largely based on data from NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft mission, which launched in 1997 and explored the Saturn system from 2004 to 2017.

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.