An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

On 15 September, we say farewell to this game-changing mission and crash the probe into Saturn’s toxic clouds, protecting these moons from contamination. All images courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

"So, even in those last few seconds, it will continue its re-writing of the textbooks." The Cassini-Huygens mission is a joint endeavour of Nasa, and the European and Italian space agencies.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

I t was years after the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft wound down its mission to Saturn, yet scientists have been deriving groundbreaking findings from the treasure trove of data. Now, a group of ...

Astrum What did Cassini-Huygens achieve before its Grand Finale Posted: November 13, 2024 | Last updated: November 13, 2024 The Cassini spacecraft spent 20 years exploring Saturn, revealing ...

The investigation of the 5,150km-wide moon has been one of the outstanding successes of the Cassini mission. The spacecraft put a small robot called Huygens on its surface in 2005. It returned a ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch NASA's groundbreaking Dragonfly mission to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, using a Falcon Heavy ...

Huygens did not have the capability to transmit data back to Earth. And it relied on the Cassini spacecraft flying overhead. Instead of having to carry something big enough to transmit the billion ...

It turns out that the moon of Saturn has certain advantages for future space colonists not present on the moon or Mars.

2024 — A new study of radar experiment data from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has yielded fresh insights related to the makeup and activity of the liquid hydrocarbon seas near the north ...