On Oct. 26, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft made its first close pass by Saturn's planet-size moon, Titan (later known as Titan ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

NASA's Cassini probe zipped by Saturn's largest moon Titan on Tuesday (July 24) in a close flyby to search for a lake filled with liquid methane. The Cassini spacecraft flew within 629 miles (1,012 ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet’s giant moon Titan. The spacecraft made its closest approach to Titan today ...

Mere weeks away from its dramatic, mission-ending plunge into Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has a hectic schedule, orbiting the planet every week in its Grand Finale. On a few orbits, Saturn’s ...

The Cassini orbiter continues its observations of Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan, stealing another early peek at the haze-enshrouded surface. Cassini’s view of Titan now surpasses Earth-based ...

The decision to land Huygens on Titan and destroy Cassini in Saturn's atmosphere prioritized the protection of Enceladus over Titan from terrestrial contamination. Titan's extremely low temperatures ( ...

On October 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. The Cassini spacecraft would later drop off a probe on Titan named Huygens, which was a ...

Cassini captured this image of Saturn with it’s largest moon, Titan, in the foreground on August 29, 2012. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI) An analysis of gravity and topography data from Saturn’s ...

The Cassini spacecraft has beamed back a new, more detailed image of smog-enshrouded Titan. This view represents an improvement in resolution of nearly three times over the previous Cassini image ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is often described as one of the most Earth-like places in the solar system. It features vast river networks, expansive lakes, and a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere. But ...

As spring continues to unfold on Saturn, April showers on the planet’s largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA’s Cassini ...