The Huygens probe had an acoustic sensor, basically a microphone, to try to detect thunder if you actually ... it turns out. And then Cassini used it to lock onto Huygens. You can do one critical ...

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 ...

The 20-year journey of the Cassini-Huygens mission, which came to an end in September 2017, has provided us with a trove of data from which we’ll mine vital information in the years to come.

For the last 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied on Saturn and its many moons. Turns out, this region of space could hold the greatest secrets of our solar system. Here are 5 of the most ...

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.

A recent study utilizing radar experiment data from NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has unveiled fresh insights into the composition and behavior of the liquid hydrocarbon seas near Titan ...