PASADENA, Calif., July 1 -- The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft hurtled through the rings of Saturn and settled into planetary orbit late Wednesday, putting a pinpoint finish to a bold 2 billion-mile ...

Our tiny blue planet has been immortalized in breathtaking images captured from the far reaches of space. These photographs, ...

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is one of the most intriguing and mysterious worlds in our solar system. With a dense, hazy ...

Ever since NASA released that photo taken from Saturn by the Cassini spacecraft on July 19 showing the Earth off in the distance, a tiny dot looking for all the ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for ...

SPACE SELFIES: NASA’s Messenger Mercury probe and Cassini Saturn explorer are maneuvering into place to image the Earth on July 19 and 20. Cassini will take its pictures between 2:27 p.m. and 2: ...

Released from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the Huygens probe descended by parachute for some 2.5 hours before surviving its landing. The European Space Agency craft remains humans’ farthest ...

For years, scientists have been intrigued by Titan as an alien world that might have the right conditions to host life, albeit in a very different form than on Earth. New research by NASA reveals that ...

It’s been 20 years since the Cassini-Huygens mission—a joint effort by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency—visited Titan.

Cassini carried a probe called Huygens to the Saturn system. The probe, which was built by ESA, parachuted to the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in January 2005—the most distant ...