NASA is preparing to revive the dormant Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn, which ceased science operations three weeks ago due to a computer glitch. Cassini mission controllers plan to ...
On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a ...
Saturn’s moon Titan may no longer be the ocean world scientists once believed it was. A new analysis of data from NASA’s ...
Just six months after the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, its cameras caught something spectacular. It was Jan. 16, 2005, and Cassini was zipping past Enceladus, a bright, tiny moon just 313 ...
The Cassini probe took its final orbits, referred to as the Grand Finale Orbits (GFOs), in 2017, before launching itself into ...
On Dec. 23, 1672, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. Rhea is made up of rock ...
The findings are based on analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017.
NASA's Cassini probe has been studying Saturn and its moons since 2005, and it's almost time for the spacecraft to call it a day. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...