In 1669, French-Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini arrived at the still-under-construction Paris Observatory as its new ...

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, 1980, ...

On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years ...

Cassini–Huygens 1997–2017 / Cassini–Huygens - A New World Revealed by Saturn Exploration. MVP ARCHIVE SPACE > Mission : ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Huygens was a European ...

The international Cassini-Huygens mission is poised to begin an extensive tour of Saturn, its majestic rings and 31 known moons. The international Cassini-Huygens mission is poised to begin an ...

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 ...

NASA 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 ...

Celebrate the end of the Cassini mission with a look back at when the Huygens probe's landing on Saturn's moon Titan. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with ...

Saturn's magnetic shield does not sit where many scientists would expect. After combing through years of data from the Cassini spacecraft, researchers found that a key opening in Saturn's ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission team, which has captured the most detailed views ever of Saturn and its myriad of moons, was honored with an Aerospace Laurel award by the editors of Aviation Week & Space ...

The Cassini spacecraft successfully completed a 51-minute engine burn that will raise its next closest approach distance to Saturn by nearly 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles). The Cassini spacecraft ...