On a pale morning in January 2005, a metallic object the size of a dishwasher descended through the thick haze of Saturn’s ...

On the eighth anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, the teams involved can look back at a string of remarkable discoveries. The Cassini-Huygens mission is one of ...

The European Space Agency and NASA have identified a new mission scenario in order to solve the Huygens radio communications problem and fully recover the scientific return from the Cassini-Huygens ...

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Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from ...

PASADENA, Calif., June 29 -- With its handlers waiting nervously 934 million miles away, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft headed toward a fateful rendezvous Tuesday, poised to pass between the rings of ...

A complete and in-depth site about the Cassini orbiter and Huygens probe. Updated daily, it includes an overview of NASA’s mission in launching Cassini, the construction of the actual orbiter, as well ...

Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon, has always been a good candidate for life in the Solar System. It contains a warm ...

PASADENA, Calif., July 1 -- The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft hurtled through the rings of Saturn and settled into planetary orbit late Wednesday, putting a pinpoint finish to a bold 2 billion-mile ...

Cassini launched Oct. 15, 1997 on a long-term mission to Saturn and its moons. After a trio of gravity assists, two from ...

It was in the 17th century that Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini first revealed Saturn’s stunning rings, changing the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean ...