Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

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 ...

On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride ...

and from that get an idea of the velocity of the Huygens probe as it went through the Titan atmosphere and how it changed with altitude, for example, and with shifting winds. It's just amazing at ...

it jettisoned a small probe called Huygens. It made a spectacular film (above) of its 2.5-hour descent onto Titan, where it landed surrounded by rounded blocks of ice. Huygens ancient saw dry ...

That mystery changed in 2005 when the Cassini space probe arrived in orbit around Saturn and detached the Huygens lander, built by the European Space Agency, which penetrated Titan’s atmosphere ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things ... that have stolen the show for we know now that Enceladus and Titan are thought to have the right conditions for life.

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 ...

What the Huygens probe revealed — a hazy, frigid, dusky-orange world — and what the ethereal painting promised could not be more different. The first color view of Titan's surface, which was ...

The scientists who built the Huygens probe that made Titan real were, in their way, doing the same. Both endeavors are examples of the rigors of curiosity born from awe. This is not, as critics of ...