Day: October 25, 2025

On Oct. 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found orbiting Saturn, and it was the first of four moons Cassini would discover at the ringed planet. The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens had discovered Titan, the largest of Saturn’s moons, about …

On This Day In Space Oct. 25, 1671 Saturn’s Yin-Yang Moon Lapetus Discovered By Giovanni Cassini Read More »

On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look like much today, they were a huge deal at the time, because no one had ever seen Earth from space before. The V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range in …

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