NASA’s Cassini mission provided the world with unparalleled views of Saturn and its rings. After 13 years, its final images ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

When NASA's Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn in 2004, it discovered that Saturn's rings appeared relatively bright and clean. Subsequent analysis suggested that Saturn's rings were about 100 ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

The Cassini spacecraft, which explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, relied heavily on sophisticated attitude control and navigation systems to achieve its scientific objectives.

Cassini-Huygens spent more than 13 years in wildly varied orbits around Saturn, allowing the spacecraft to pass near many of its moons, as well as execute a soft-landing of its Huygens lander on ...

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

It's hard to imagine Saturn without its glorious, extensive, complicated rings. Yet, when the Cassini probe arrived to study the planet in 2004, it made a curious discovery: the ice chunks and ...

Saturn’s rings were surprisingly young; Cassini spacecraft data suggested For years, scientists assumed Saturn’s rings were only about 100 to 400 million years old based on observations made ...