On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride on NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Saturn's largest moon Titan. It parted ways ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to ...

it jettisoned a small probe called Huygens. It made a spectacular film (above) of its 2.5-hour descent onto Titan, where it landed surrounded by rounded blocks of ice. Huygens ancient saw dry ...

That mystery changed in 2005 when the Cassini space probe arrived in orbit around Saturn and detached the Huygens lander, built by the European Space Agency, which penetrated Titan’s atmosphere ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things ... that have stolen the show for we know now that Enceladus and Titan are thought to have the right conditions for life.

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it is, can both evoke the sublime.

What the Huygens probe revealed — a hazy, frigid, dusky-orange world — and what the ethereal painting promised could not be more different. The first color view of Titan's surface, which was ...

The scientists who built the Huygens probe that made Titan real were, in their way, doing the same. Both endeavors are examples of the rigors of curiosity born from awe. This is not, as critics of ...