The atmospheric carbon dioxide was thought to be the result of the oxidation of oxygen molecules in the exosphere. As a ...

Saturn leads the solar system with 274 moons. From Titan’s methane lakes to Enceladus’ geysers, explore the diverse worlds of ...

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

When NASA launched the Pioneer probes, they were met with an intriguing mystery. At around 20 astronomical units, both ...

When the Huygens probe dropped into Titan's atmosphere on Jan. 14, 2005, no one knew what to expect. For landings on Mars or the Moon, mission scientists plotted out landing sites with meticulous care ...

On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Huygens remains the first and only landing in any location in the outer solar system, the furthest distance from Earth a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a European ...

Saturn’s exuberant moon, Enceladus, will receive a pair of visitors in the near future. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing a combined orbiter and lander to visit the icy satellite. Still in ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission featured "the most complex gravity-assist trajectory ever flown" (Bellerose, 2019), utilizing four gravity-assist maneuvers to reach Saturn. Launched in October 1997 with a ...