Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon. Iapetus was discovered by the Italian ...

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 ...

Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans have viewed the universe beyond Earth. These spacecraft are dedicated to increasing the knowledge of humans. One of the best examples is the ...

Today marks the NASA Cassini spacecraft's 15th year in space. Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on October 15, 1997 and has since charted more than 3.8 billion miles of ...

What lifeforms could potentially exist within the ocean of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft turned its imaging cameras to Earth, scientists, engineers and visitors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., gathered to wave at our robotic photographer ...

Cassini data show Enceladus ejects ice from its ocean containing intermediates of biologically relevant organics, first found in an ocean beyond Earth. (Nanowerk News) Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a still and partially sunlit Enceladus, the icy moon of Saturn, in this image released on Dec. 23, 2013. This image, taken on April 7, 2013, shows the side of ...

How can Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, influence its much larger parent planet? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics hopes to address as a team of ...

Cassini image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. Jets of water from the moon's underground ocean are visible bursting through cracks in the ice.