For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scientists reexamining data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered exciting new evidence from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. The spacecraft detected complex organic molecules being blasted into ...
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 ...
Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon, has always been a good candidate for life in the Solar System. It contains a warm saltwater ocean beneath a thick layer of ice and water vapour spraying from ...
On Oct. 26, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft made its first close pass by Saturn's planet-size moon, Titan (later known as Titan ...
On Friday, the Cassini spacecraft’s Huygens probe is scheduled to descend into the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Data from Huygens may offer clues about how life began on earth. Larry ...
On a pale morning in January 2005, a metallic object the size of a dishwasher descended through the thick haze of Saturn’s ...
(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 ...