On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years ...

A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed ...

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 ...

Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus. This is a clear sign that complex chemical reactions ...

The anniversary of Cassini’s launch marks the legacy of one of NASA’s most awe-inspiring space missions which explored Saturn ...

PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented “in your face” flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12. The spacecraft, orchestrating its closest approach to date, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan.'On This Day in Space ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission increased our understanding of the planet’s rings and moons Aaron Boorstein | Staff Contributor During the summer of 2004, almost seven years after launching from Cape ...

Cassini’s mission at Saturn and its moons ended on September 15, 2017. But there is still tons of data for scientists to analyze, including radar data. Cassini used its radar to study Titan’s seas and ...

One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up. Galaxies rotate much faster than predicted by applying Newton's law of gravity to their visible ...

This raw image shows Saturn's north polar region (left half) and part of its north polar hexagon. At right, we see the rings stacked up in the distance. The photo was taken captured by NASA's Cassini ...