Most probes orbit worlds or fly past them. In January 2005, Europe's Huygens did something far rarer: it landed. Carried ...

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 development ...

The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe was successfully released by NASA’s Cassini orbiter and is now on a controlled collision course toward Saturn’s largest and most mysterious moon, Titan, where ...

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 ...

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.

2005-01-15 04:00:00 PDT Darmstadt, Germany-- A bold and perilous space adventure into a far-off unknown world achieved an extraordinary success Friday as Europe's Huygens probe descended to a safe ...

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 ...

[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 ...