The Huygens probe had an acoustic sensor, basically a microphone, to try to detect thunder if you actually had lightning. The acoustic sensor would sample two-second intervals in certain ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons. Scientists have watched a new band of the ring form and witnessed the changing of seasons on this gas ...

The spacecraft put a small robot called Huygens on its surface in 2005. It returned a remarkable image of rounded pebbles that had been smoothed by the action of flowing liquid methane.

Although the probe has gone its science lives on ... it will continue its re-writing of the textbooks." The Cassini-Huygens mission is a joint endeavour of Nasa, and the European and Italian ...

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 ...

An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. At 5 am ET on Wednesday, NASA will fly its $3.26 billion Cassini spacecraft where no spacecraft has flown before — in the deepest region ...