Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years for ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – “Spectacular Saturn: Images From the Cassini-Huygens Mission,” an exhibition of more than 60 views of Saturn and its moons, is on display through Dec. 8 at the National Academies’ Keck ...

After a 20-year voyage, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is poised to dive into Saturn this week to become forever one with the exquisite planet. There's no turning back: Friday it careens through the ...

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 ...

Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans have viewed the universe beyond Earth. These spacecraft are dedicated to increasing the knowledge of humans. One of the best examples is the ...

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 well ...

While many of us were stuck sitting behind a school bus in rush-hour traffic this morning, far away from us a much higher-speed spectacle took place. After thirteen years of sometimes bootstrapped and ...

In 2004, NASA scientists proposed that Enceladus, a small frozen moon orbiting Saturn, could hide a global ocean under its frozen surface and contain chemical ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its sojourn at Saturn on Sept. 15, with a plunge in the atmosphere of the ringed planet. The mission began in 1997 when Cassini was launched on a trip to Saturn to look ...

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