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

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.

The Huygens probe, built and managed by the European Space Agency (ESA), is bolted to Cassini and fed electrical power through an umbilical cable.

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Data from Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer of Enceladus' south polar terrain, which is marked by linear fissures, indicate that the internal heat-generated power is about 15.8 gigawatts ...

Saturn is about 900 million miles from the Sammamish River Valley, but the two places now share a common bond. Both have rocket engines built in Redmond. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, orbiting ...

Saturn is about 900 million miles from the Sammamish River Valley, but the two places now share a common bond. Both have rocket engines built in Redmond. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, orbiting ...

The highlights of the first year of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn can be broken into two chapters: first, the arrival of the Cassini orbiter at Saturn in June, and second, the release of ...

First, Cassini had to get to Saturn. The year it blasted off, 1997, the "information superhighway" was just getting up to speed. By the time it arrived, in 2004, a Harvard student named Mark ...

The Cassini mission has been an unequivocal success — but its fate was not always certain. This is the story of how it got off the ground, told by the people who were there.

This story was updated at 9:31 a.m. EST. DARMSTADT. Germany -- Europe's Huygens descent probe will deliver its promised data on Saturn's moon, Titan, despite the loss of one of two communications ...