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.

Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans have viewed the universe beyond Earth. These spacecraft are dedicated to ...

After separating from the Cassini spacecraft on December 25, Huygens made a successful landing on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Paris, January 14, 2005 – The Huygens space probe has arr… ...

Huygens' descent and landing. Huygens arrived at Titan following a seven-year voyage attached to the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft. It then spent 2 hours and 28 minutes descending by parachute ...

ESA’s Huygens probe came through its 8th in-flight check-out on 20 September with flying colours. Signals sent from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft when it was almost 1 billion kilometres from ...

While astronomers, geologists, and physicists breathlessly await the results of the experiments performed on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygens space probe, which plummeted through the ...

Dear Huygens: When you landed on an alien moon, you changed my life. Fourteen years ago today, the spacecraft completed the farthest landing on another world—forever shaping the work of one ...

The two spacecraft separated in December 2004 and the Huygens probe landed on Titan on January 14, 2005. Related The Top 10 Space Missions We're Looking Forward To In 2015 ...

7:20 a.m. EST: The first news briefing on today's Huygens descent to Titan should begin in about 10 minutes at ESA's ESOC spacecraft operations center. Huygens reached Titan successfully about two ...

After an epic journey of seven years and 3.5 billion kilometres, the Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn orbit on 1 July 2004. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a $3 billion, 4-year tour of Saturn ...

Huygens: 'Ground truth' from an alien moon—2005 historic descent to Titan revisited. After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a ...

PARIS-- Scientists piecing together data from Europe's Huygens probe to Saturn's moon Titan described the hazy satellite today as an environment in which ... 2 Chinese spacecraft just met up ...