While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

Dragonfly, NASA's nuclear-powered rotorcraft-in-progress, has cleared a pivotal checkpoint, the agency announced Thursday. Dragonfly's critical design review—required for all of NASA's unmanned ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cassini also deployed a lander—named Huygens after the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, who discovered the moon in 1655. In 2005, the Huygens lander became the first spacecraft to land on a ...

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 ...

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.

the latter of which flew as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. Saturn has the most moons of any planet in the Solar System. Thousands of moonlets, perhaps tens of meters long ...

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 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 ...