Cassini — named after Giovanni Domenico Cassini, a 17th century Italian astronomer who discovered four of Saturn’s moons — changed all that. For the first time, we saw churning gas storms at ...

They are named for 17th-century astronomers, Italian Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Dutch Christiaan Huygens, who spotted Saturn's first moon, Titan. The current count is 62.

They are named for 17th-century astronomers, Italian Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Dutch Christiaan Huygens, who spotted Saturn's first moon, Titan. The current count is 62.

Seventeenth-century astronomers supplied the spacecraft names: Italy’s Giovanni Domenico Cassini, who discovered four moons and the wide division in Saturn’s rings, and Holland’s Christiaan ...

Cassini will transmit its final message to Earth just hours after the 305th anniversary of the death of its namesake, astronomer and cartographer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.

Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian mathematician and astronomer born in 1625. He was the first person to notice the division of the rings of Saturn in 1675 and now, over 300 years later, a ...

Astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini first observed what he called the “Permanent Spot” on Jupiter in 1665.

In 1665, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini observed a massive storm raging on Jupiter. It became known as the Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds that’s almost twice as wide as Earth.

They are named for 17th-century astronomers, Italian Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Dutch Christiaan Huygens, who spotted Saturn’s first moon, Titan. The current count is 62.

Rue Cassini — rue means “street” in French — is a short street that runs just north of the Paris Observatory, which Giovanni Domenico Cassini helped open in 1671 and then ran until his ...