NASA's Cassini probe zipped by Saturn's largest moon Titan on Tuesday (July 24) in a close flyby to search for a lake filled with liquid methane. The Cassini spacecraft flew within 629 miles (1,012 ...

Saturn’s magnetic shield does not sit where many scientists would expect. After combing through years of data from the Cassini spacecraft, researchers found that a key opening in Saturn’s ...

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 ...

Around 7:30 a.m. Friday morning, planet Earth will lose the Cassini spacecraft’s signal just before it takes that final, fiery plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, marking the end of an amazing 13 years ...

Most moons in the solar system are geologically dead, cratered rock and ice that has not changed meaningfully in billions of years. Enceladus, a modest moon orbiting Saturn, breaks that pattern ...

Joined at the hip for the last seven years, Cassini and Huygens finally separated Dec. 24 PST after a 3.5 billion kilometer (2.2 billion mile) journey through our solar system. While the Cassini ...

One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up. Galaxies rotate much faster than predicted by applying Newton's law of gravity to their visible ...

Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus. This is a clear sign that complex chemical reactions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. ‘On This Day in ...