Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

A strange new phenomenon discovered on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has left scientists scratching their heads. Research ...

Cassini found several moons orbiting Saturn, and as of 2023, the planet’s known number of moons in its orbit is almost 150. A model of NASA's Cassini spacecraft is seen at the Jet Propulsion ...

Three probes had visited Saturn before NASA’s Cassini probe rolled into the area in 2004, but none had ever entered its orbit. By doing just that and continuing to circle the gas giant until ...

Mission scientists and operators gave Cassini this fiery send-off on purpose. Although many other options were considered – such as “parking” the spacecraft in orbit – they didn’t want ...

launched in 1997 and inserted into orbit in 2004, it revolutionized our understanding of the ringed planet. Cassini revealed the structure of Saturn's rings and, by delivering the Huygens probe to ...

The mission could have been prolonged by moving the probe into a safer, more distant orbit. But that isn’t Spilker’s style – or Cassini’s. After 13 years at Saturn, it seemed only fitting ...

Aside from Earth, of course. Unlike the trove of photos and information that the Cassini spacecraft provided about Saturn and its moons and famed rings -- possibly the result of a moon ripped to ...

Cassini, officially called Cassini–Huygens, is the fourth space probe to be sent to Saturn and only the first to enter the planet’s orbit. Developed by the European Space Agency (ESA ...

Why NASA killed the Cassini probe Cassini left Earth with 6,900 pounds of propellant in its tanks. This allowed it to adjust its orbit around Saturn and visit one moon after the next, leading to ...

Cassini was like a car with a camera glued to the hood. If scientists wanted to get a look at anything, engineers would have to steer the entire spacecraft over. “We could orbit Saturn this way ...