The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

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.

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 ...

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially ...

In over 40 flybys of Titan, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft managed to 'see' the surface of the moon with its radar experiment and an infrared camera. By the end of the mission, the Cassini orbiter had ...

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 ...

Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended ... times as strong as the average wind speeds estimated by the Huygens measurements near the surface and with climate models ...

Like the Galilean moons, the moons of Saturn (except Io) are composed primarily of ice, mixed with varying proportions of rock and, in some cases, organic substances (carbon compounds). As well as ...

That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent from Earth by the European Space Agency along with the Cassini spacecraft to help humanity learn more about Saturn and its 53 known moons.

A recent study utilizing radar experiment data from NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has unveiled fresh insights into the composition and behavior of the liquid hydrocarbon seas near Titan ...