Dragonfly, NASA's nuclear-powered rotorcraft-in-progress, has cleared a pivotal checkpoint, the agency announced Thursday.

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 ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Bob Mitchell of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the Program Manager for the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission, whose flight team took home this year's National Air and Space Museum Trophy for ...

At 5 am ET on Wednesday, NASA will fly its $3.26 billion Cassini spacecraft where no spacecraft has flown before — in the deepest region of Saturn's rings between the planet and its inner-most ring.

another principal objective of the Cassini-Huygens mission is to study the chemical and mineralogical composition of the planet's moons using the spectrometers onboard the Cassini probe (and in the ...

And that they were able to pick up from Earth, it turns out. And then Cassini used it to lock onto Huygens. You can do one critical piece of science with the carrier signal alone and that is ...

The Huygens project—named for Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch astronomer who in 1655 discovered Titan—is something of a pioneer back on Earth too. It is Europe’s farthest stab by far into the universe.

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.

The featured missions were selected through a poll conducted by The Planetary Society, with the top results being the Voyager "Grand Tour" program of the 1970s and 1980s; the Cassini/Huygens ...

The most in-depth study of Saturn was done by the Cassini-Huygens mission, which launched from Earth in 1997 and reached the ringed gas giant in 2004. The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon ...