Like the gas giant Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System ... another principal objective of the Cassini-Huygens mission is to study the chemical and mineralogical composition of the planet's ...

Illustrations by the 17th-century astronomer Cassini (a-c), compared with Jupiter's current Great Red Spot as captured by Eric Sussenbach in 2023. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

With a diameter of 5150 kilometres, Titan is the second largest moon in the entire Solar System, second only to Jupiter's moon Ganymede with ... In over 40 flybys of Titan, the Cassini-Huygens ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

Björn Jónsson stitched together over 100 images taken on two different missions (Cassini and Juno) to create a full photographic map of Jupiter. "It's special because this is the first map that ...