NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet’s giant moon Titan. The spacecraft made its closest approach to Titan today ...

Shortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed only ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus is a frozen world, but it isn't frozen solid. Colossal cryovolcanoes near the ice-locked moon's south pole send plumes from its briny global ocean so far into space that they ...

A heavily cratered landscape crossed by networks of parallel fissures snapped by the Cassini probe during yesterday's close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, the first ever of it north polar region.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American After more than ten years in orbit around ...

On October 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. The Cassini spacecraft would later drop off a probe on Titan named Huygens, which was a ...

This map of the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan illustrates the regions that will be imaged by Cassini during the spacecraft’s fourth (and third very close) flyby of the smoggy moon on Feb. 15, 2005.

The Cassini spacecraft completed a successful rendezvous with Saturn's moon Titan on Dec. 13 and is scheduled to fly by the icy moon Dione on Dec. 15, according to NASA. Cassini came within 750 miles ...

The third targeted flyby of Titan occurs on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 6:58 SCET (Ground: 8:06 UTC – 12:06 AM Pacific time). Cassini’s closest approach to Saturn’s largest satellite is at an ...

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's $3.4 billion Cassini spacecraft passed Jupiter at the closest point of its trip Saturday, using gravity from the solar system's largest planet to swing it toward Saturn.

On October 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com The Cassini spacecraft would later drop ...