Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...
Ever since Titan was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655, the moon has been shrouded ... the descent and for 72 minutes after landing before losing contact.
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 ...
Yes, just like our own moon, Titan orbits a planet ... able to take short flights in between landings. It will run on what's called a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, or RTG.
NASA has given SpaceX the contract to launch the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan. A Falcon Heavy will ... will perform an autonomous landing. From its landing site, Dragonfly will deploy ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere, and the most Earth-like place we know of. It has rain, lakes, and oceans ...
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 ...