On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe, a joint space mission between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency, landed on the surface of Titan, the largest moon of the ...

The Frisbee-shaped Huygens probe successfully separated from the Cassini spacecraft Friday and began a risky 2.5-million-mile journey to the surface of Saturn's bizarre, smog-choked moon Titan.

On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe made history by landing on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and sending back stunning data that gave us our first detailed look at this mysterious world. Now ...

[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for the ...

Scientists on Huygens' imaging team only got half of the pictures they had hoped for during the descent. They expected to have more than 700 images from the 2.5-hour flight, and only got about 350.

Huygens built two-lens telescopes, and would keep a table of which lenses to combine for different magnification levels. However, his calculations don’t align well with today’s understanding ...

Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch scientist born in 1629. He proposed Saturn was a ringed planet, and was the first to propose a theory of light's nature. (Image credit: Portrait by Bernard Vailant) ...

Huygens was capable of detecting primordial argon at levels 1,000 times lower than Earth’s. Even more surprising was the discovery of argon 40, which can only form by radioactive decay inside Titan.

The first color view of Titan’s surface, which was returned on Jan. 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency Huygens probe, following processing to add reflection spectra data.

The first analyses of data sent by the Huygens probe from Saturn's largest moon Titan are flooding in. They paint a picture of a ‘Peter Pan’ world — potentially like Earth, but with its ...

This story was updated at 9:31 a.m. EST. DARMSTADT. Germany -- Europe's Huygens descent probe will deliver its promised data on Saturn's moon, Titan, despite the loss of one of two communications ...

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 ...