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 ...

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 ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It fundamentally altered our understanding of gas giants and their satellites and ...

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 ...

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch from Cape Canaveral, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is once again at the center of scientific attention. Its latest discoveries about the ringed ...

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, ...

The European Space Agency’s Huygens Probe appears shining as it coasts away from Cassini in this close-up of an image taken on Dec. 26, 2004, just two days after it successfully detached from the ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission increased our understanding of the planet’s rings and moons Aaron Boorstein | Staff Contributor One of Cassini's last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance, ...

Mission will now continue its tour through the Saturn system after a communications flaw threatened the programme The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed the final details of a recovery plan for ...

On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a European spacecraft that hitched a ride to the Saturn system with Cassini.