Cassini flew past Titan, roughly 1,200 kilometres from its surface, on Monday 13 December, about the same distance as its first close encounter back on 26 October.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, could harbor life in its hidden underground ocean – yet Titan's entire aquatic biosphere may ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

NASA's Cassini mission flew past Titan early Wednesday morning, successfully completing a complex maneuver that will help scientists better understand one of the solar system's most intriguing moons.

Titan will be waiting once again when the road runs out in September. A last, distant encounter with the moon on Sept. 11 will usher Cassini to its fate, with the spacecraft sending back precious ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, hazy atmosphere, and it's often compared to a primitive Earth. But now, ...

The Cassini mission brought with it the European Space Agency’s Huygens lander, which was dispatched to Titan and successfully entered its atmosphere and then descended under parachute to the ...

On Nov. 29, Cassini did another close flyby of Titan, capturing more images of its north pole so scientists can look for more changes that may have occurred there.

The spacecraft Cassini will become a streak of ash when it tumbles into Saturn on Friday. Less than a million miles away, the probe Huygens, which Cassini launched onto Saturn's moon Titan, will ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Saturn's largest moon Titan Tuesday (July 24) to search for sunlight glinting off the liquid methane lake Kivu Lacus.

Using Titan, Cassini’s orbit could be stretched out, farther from Saturn — for example, to send the spacecraft toward the distant moon Iapetus. With this technique, ...