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.

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.

"While just 40% the diameter of the Earth, Titan has an atmosphere 1. ... The paper is largely based on data from NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft mission, which launched in 1997 and explored ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft went on a long and treacherous mission that ended last year ...

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 ...

Released from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the Huygens probe descended by parachute ... some 750 million miles away from Earth. With a thick nitrogen-methane atmosphere, Titan’s sky is choked ...

NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ended its 20-year mission ... sending a radio beam to Titan and reflecting it back to Earth. This provided a more complete dataset compared to standard radar.