One can’t think of a better way to honour Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini and Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, after whom the mission was named. Let us see how exactly the latter ...

The discovery has raised a lot of questions ... Saturn’s first known moon, Titan, was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens 45 years later. The new batch of 128 moons was discovered ...

[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for the ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a billion mile trek to Saturn. The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons.