Built by the European Space Agency (ESA), the 705-pound (320-kilogram) Huygens probe landed on Titan between 7:45-7:46 a.m. EST (1245-1246 GMT) and delivered the scientific goods researchers were ...

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, on ...

Huygens actually warmed Titan’s surface so much that part of it boiled away, giving the probe’s mass spectrometer a whiff of what lies beneath. “Methane is coming from the surface,” said Owen.

This is one of the first raw, or unprocessed, images from the European Space Agency's Huygens probe as it descended to Saturn's moon Titan January 14, 2005 and released January 14, 2005.

The Huygens probe had a special role within the mission. Equipped with six scientific multifunction instruments, it was designed to land on the surface of Titan and relay information gathered ...

PARIS-- Scientists piecing together data from Europe's Huygens probe to Saturn's moon Titan described the hazy satellite today as an environment in which a frequent rain of liquid methane falls ...

Timers inside the 705-pound probe awakened it just before it entered Titan’s atmosphere. Huygens is shaped like a wok and covered with a heat shield to survive the intense heat of entry.

You told us things about Titan that we could only know by going there. On October 15, 1997, a Titan IVB/Centaur carried the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe to Saturn.

This artistic concept shows the Cassini spacecraft releasing the Huygens probe into the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Huygens pulled away from Cassini at less than 1 mile per hour.

The international Cassini spacecraft launched a probe Friday on a three-week free-fall toward Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan, where it will plunge into the hazy atmosphere and descend by ...

On Friday, the Cassini spacecraft’s Huygens probe is scheduled to descend into the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Data from Huygens may offer clues about how life began on earth.

Leese added, "A first look at the measurements of Titan's atmosphere during the fly-by suggest that the "Atmosphere Model" we developed and used to design the Huygens probe is valid and all looks ...