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 ...

Twenty years ago, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a billion mile trek to Saturn. The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons.

Huygens did not have the capability to transmit data back to Earth. And it relied on the Cassini spacecraft flying overhead. Instead of having to carry something big enough to transmit the billion ...

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.

That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent from Earth by the European Space Agency along with the Cassini spacecraft to help humanity learn more about Saturn and its 53 known moons.

a large-scale international science collaboration underway since the late 1980s and culminating in the launch and operation of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft in the Saturn system. Our project, ...

That mission is still going on, and has cost at least $2.5bn to date. The two-part Cassini-Huygens spacecraft a joint venture between Nasa, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Agenzia Spaziale ...

You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...