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 ...

ESA engineers have determined why the space agency's Huygens probe suddenly began spinning the wrong way 15 years ago as it descended to the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The first ...

The ESA's Cassini-Huygens mission achieved the first landing on a moon beyond Earth's, specifically Saturn's moon Titan, in 2005. The Huygens lander, detached from the Cassini probe in December 2004, ...

The Huygens probe touched down on Titan on January 14 2005 after a 22-day coast from Saturn. Built by the European Space Agency, it entered Titan’s dense atmosphere at hypersonic speed, parachuted ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. PARIS-- Scientists piecing together data from Europe's Huygens probe to Saturn's moon Titan ...

The Huygens probe has sent back stunning images of Titan's surface, which have given scientists their first glimpse beneath the moon's smoggy shroud. The pictures show an orange world littered with ...

Ten years ago Nasa and the ESA landed a probe on Titan. It marked humanity's first landing in the outer solar system and sent back stunning pictures of that distant world. To mark the occasion a video ...

On Jan. 14, 2005, after a seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, ...

Shown here are two images of the expected landing site of Cassini’s Huygens probe (latitude 10.6 S, longitude 191 W). At right is a wide-angle image showing most of Titan’s disc, with a scale of 10 ...

Perhaps the most exciting part of the Cassini spacecraft's 12-and-a-half years orbiting Saturn was back in December 2004, when the mothership deposited the European Space Agency's Huygens probe.