On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe made history by landing on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and sending back stunning ...

Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans have viewed the universe beyond Earth. These spacecraft are dedicated to ...

Before landing, it switched on a feeble 20-watt lamp to illuminate Titan's dark surface. Scientists hadn't expected to see much until Huygens got down to about 200 yards-sunshine on Titan being 1/ ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it is, can both evoke the sublime.

Celebrate the end of the Cassini mission by looking back at the Huygens probe's landing on Saturn moon Titan.

I was very lucky to start my career just when Huygens began, and hopefully will retire after Dragonfly has spent a few years on Titan." In 1994, after earning a PhD in space sciences at the University ...

The European Space Agency has finally discovered what went wrong during the descent of the Huygens probe it sent to Saturn's moon Titan as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission launched in 1997 ...

As Huygens hurtled toward Titan’s surface, the probe unraveled mysteries about the bizarre moon, taking critical measurements of its atmospheric pressure, density, and temperature.

An illustration shows the landing site of the Huygens probe on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. On January 14, 2005, Huygens completed the farthest landing on another world ever attempted.

On this day in tech history, the first landing ever accomplished in the outer solar system took place when the Huygens probe touched down on Titan. Unfortunately, due to a design flaw, only half of ...

Less than a million miles away, the probe Huygens, which Cassini launched onto Saturn's moon Titan, will be the only evidence of its partner's journey. Huygens is probably in the very spot where ...