On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a ...

Joined at the hip for the last seven years, Cassini and Huygens finally separated Dec. 24 PST after a 3.5 billion kilometer (2.2 billion mile) journey through our solar system. While the Cassini ...

On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon. Iapetus was discovered by the ...

After a 20-year voyage around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed its mission with a final plunge into the planet's atmosphere. Cassini was the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn giving NASA ...

The spacecraft is set to plunge to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in April. — -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning a series of "ring grazing" orbits today to study Saturn's rings and moons ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

With its flyby of Phoebe, the Cassini spacecraft has completed the first satellite flyby in its four-year tour of the Saturn system. NASA’s Deep Space Network received confirmation at 7:52 a.m. PDT ...

Netherlands-based director Sander van den Berg has taken images from NASA's Cassini orbiter and Voyager spacecraft to create an amazing new video of Saturn entitled "Outer Space." At first, the ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is getting a grand but hilarious opera send-off before it plunges through Saturn's atmosphere and vaporizes Friday. An actor from TV's old "Star Trek: Voyager" series, Robert ...

There is no shortage of interest in Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, surface lakes and seas ...

Just six months after the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, its cameras caught something spectacular. It was Jan. 16, 2005, and Cassini was zipping past Enceladus, a bright, tiny moon just 313 ...