The Cassini probe has begun the final phase of its mission to Saturn. The satellite has executed ... Cassini will send all the data back to Earth during its next contact on Tuesday.

The American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to destroy itself by plunging into the planet's atmosphere. It survived for ...

Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended over a year ago ... the presence of dust storms on its surface. As on Earth and Mars, weather patterns on Titan vary from season ...

Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere, and the most Earth-like place we know of ... of Titan’s surface the surface taken by Cassini’s, the researchers did not find an obvious ...

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

On April 26, NASA flew its Cassini spacecraft closer ... When you consider that Saturn is 750 million miles away — about 9 times farther than Earth is to the Sun — these close ups are nothing ...

Earth and Jupiter. Then Christiaan Huygens added the ringed planet Saturn to the list by discovering its largest moon, Titan. Since then, 47 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, 15 of which ...

Narrator: In 2017, NASA's Cassini probe sent us our closest ... At its closest, Saturn is 1.2 billion kilometers away from Earth. So with today's spacecraft technology, you'll need about eight ...

Note: Since beams of light (and data transmissions) take more than an hour to reach Earth from Saturn, all times are from Cassini's vantage unless otherwise noted. What: A flyby of Titan ...

Titan is more than a billion kilometres from our Sun but occasionally it’s shadow can be seen here on Earth ... signals from Cassini space probe before it burns up in Saturn’s atmosphere ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...