17th century scientist Christiaan Huygens set his sights on faraway Saturn, but he may have been nearsighted. Huygens is known, in part, for discovering Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and deducing the ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission, a collaborative endeavor between NASA, ESA, and ASI, was an unprecedented project designed for sustained exploration of Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, following ...

[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 ...

NASA is helping commemorate the landing of the Huygens space probe on Saturn's moon Titan 10 years ago with the release of photos and a video celebrating the first landing on an outer solar system ...

WAUKESHA, WI – While children look to the sky Christmas Eve, hoping to catch a glimpse of Santa Claus, planetary scientists will be gazing at computer screens to monitor celestial goings-on. But these ...

Three hundred years after Christiaan Huygens published the first treatise on the mathematics of probability, a financial services firm is using his name and theories for a new robo-advisor. Huygens ...

[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 ...

DARMSTADT, Germany — Rivers? At 292 degrees below zero? As the images came streaking across the cosmos from Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists grew increasingly ecstatic: remarkable, a fantasy, a Lake ...

Hang two pendulum clocks on the same wall, and over time, something strange will happen: the two clocks will tick in synchrony. Renowned Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, the inventor of the ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers examine the Huygens probe after removal from the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing ...

Ten years ago today—Jan. 15, 2005—humanity reached out and touched another world. And it was a doozy. It was Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft, still on its way to entering ...