On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride ...

When the Huygens probe dropped into Titan's atmosphere on Jan. 14, 2005, no one knew what to expect. For landings on Mars or ...

On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a European spacecraft that hitched a ride to the Saturn system with Cassini.

It’s been eight years since the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Now, to celebrate this anniversary, and to make sense of the data sent back to Earth, a ...

On a pale morning in January 2005, a metallic object the size of a dishwasher descended through the thick haze of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Moving at just over four meters per second, the Huygens ...

Named after Titan's discoverer, the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, the probe carries instruments to explore Titan's atmosphere and find out whether it has the cold seas of liquid ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Dec. 25 -- More than 750 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe was released from NASA's Cassini orbiter Christmas Eve and placed on a collision course ...

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 ...

DARMSTADT, Germany - Pictures snapped by the Titan probe and a low, whooshing sound picked up by an on-board microphone drew gasps and applause from scientists Saturday, as the mission to Saturn's ...

WEATHER REPORT: A European team has developed a computer model that makes it possible to predict cloud formation and distribution on Jupiter's moon Titan. Based on observations from the U.S. Cassini ...