The Huygens spacecraft has sent back its first signal on its historic descent to Saturn's moon Titan. Early on Friday Huygens began its dive through Titan's atmosphere, taking images and readings as ...

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.

17th century scientist Christiaan Huygens set his sights on faraway Saturn, but he may have been nearsighted. Huygens is known, in part, for discovering Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and deducing the ...

Clutching three black-and-white photographs, Marty Tomasko beamed as he strode into a late-night press briefing on Jan. 14 in Darmstadt, Germany. With a crowd gathering around him at the European ...

The Huygens space craft has sent back the first images of Saturn's moon Titan, showing what appears to be a shoreline of an oily ocean. One stunning black and white image reveals what seem to be ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. PARIS-- Scientists piecing together data from Europe's Huygens probe to Saturn's moon Titan ...

The Huygens probe has sent back stunning images of Titan's surface, which have given scientists their first glimpse beneath the moon's smoggy shroud. The pictures show an orange world littered with ...