The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft showed us a new view of the Saturn system. But it took a long road to get there, from mission development to its launch 25 years ago.

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 ...

In 2005, it released the European Space Agency-built Huygens probe into the atmosphere of one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, to find a world with rivers, lakes and seas. Equinox In 2008, the Cassini ...

The European Space Agency recalls the historic landing on the Saturn moon and the mission that made it possible. Credit: ESA ...

Cassini launched on October 15, 1997, as Cassini-Huygens. Huygens, in this case, refers to the name of the probe's original attached lander. It entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004.

THE HUYGENS PROBE. Exploring Saturn With its half-dozen sensitive instruments, the Huygens probe is designed to study the atmosphere and surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

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

NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft may have dramatically ended its 20-year mission to explore Saturn's neighborhood seven years ago, when it plunged to into the gas giant, but it is still ...

The operations of the Cassini spacecraft, part of the international NASA/ ESA/ ASI Cassini-Huygens mission, have been extended by NASA by two years. The historic mission’s stunning discoveries ...

Saturn is about 900 million miles from the Sammamish River Valley, but the two places now share a common bond. Both have rocket engines built in Redmond. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, orbiting ...

If Cassini-Huygens traveled all the way to Saturn and returned nothing but data on the planet and its rings, the mission would probably still be judged a success.

Before the mission ended nearly 20 years later, the Cassini-Huygens space probe managed to provide unprecedentedly detailed readings about the planet Saturn, along with its rings and various ...