The probe is set to land on Saturn's moon Titan on Jan. 14. On target for Titan, Saturn's haze-shrouded moon, the Huygens space probe is headed for a mystery-packed landing. The European Space ...

When it rains on Saturn's moon Titan, a flood of liquid methane carries the hydrocarbon topsoil down the sides of ice mountains, choking gullies and rivers that spill the silt into chill flood plains ...

DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) 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 ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d nicknamed ...

For pay, Mike Bushroe analyzes data from Jupiter's largest moon; for fun, he designs solar death rays. The day job, as senior software engineer for the Descent Imager Spectral Radiometer (DISR) on the ...

DARMSTADT, Germany -- A European space probe Friday sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon Titan, showing stunning black and white images of what appeared to be ...

PASADENA, Calif., June 29 -- With its handlers waiting nervously 934 million miles away, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft headed toward a fateful rendezvous Tuesday, poised to pass between the rings of ...

On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It took almost 7 years for Cassini to reach Saturn. Another smaller spacecraft called Huygens ...

A puzzling image from the Huygens probe's 2005 Titan landing, showing river-like channels, continues to intrigue scientists.