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.

Q. What is the Cassini mission and who is involved? "The Cassini Huygens mission is an international mission between the European space agency and the US space agency, which has been orbiting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, it was the Cassini-Huygens mission that discovered water vapor and organic molecules venting from the Enceladus' southern polar region in 2004. Over the next 13 years, the Cassini orbiter ...

After more than a decade orbiting Saturn, Cassini is almost out of fuel. The craft's final daring mission looms – a fatal dive into the gas giant's atmosphere ...

The investigation of the 5,150km-wide moon has been one of the outstanding successes of the Cassini mission. The spacecraft put a small robot called Huygens on its surface in 2005. It returned a ...

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 ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of ...

NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ended its 20-year mission in 2017 by plunging into Saturn, but it continues to provide valuable scientific data. Using radar data from Cassini, Cornell University ...