Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

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.

The Cassini mission brought with it the European Space Agency’s Huygens lander, which was dispatched to Titan and successfully entered its atmosphere and then descended under parachute to the ...

And that they were able to pick up from Earth, it turns out. And then Cassini used it to lock onto Huygens. You can do one critical piece of science with the carrier signal alone and that is ...

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.

Launched in 1997, the Cassini-Huygens mission will come to an end in September with a dramatic, final dive through the rings and into the toxic atmosphere of Saturn. But it has taken some ...

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 ...

On Jan. 14, 2005: The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan after being carried from Earth by NASA's Cassini spacecraft ... Nuclear-powered Dragonfly mission to Saturn moon Titan delayed ...

For the last 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied on Saturn and its many moons. Turns out, this region of space could hold the greatest secrets of our solar system. Here are 5 of the most ...

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. The spacecraft spent 13 years ...