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.

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 ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere which is comprised of thick hazes of 95 percent nitrogen ( | Space ...

Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and ...

The researchers analyzed half of Titan's surface and found no ice volcanoes ... it jettisoned a small probe called Huygens. It made a spectacular film (above) of its 2.5-hour descent onto Titan ...

SwRI is studying how Saturn’s largest moon maintains its thick atmosphere. Scientists think Titan’s core is covered by several layers of ice and a subsurface liquid ocean. New experiments indicate ...

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 ...

Probes showed instead a dense atmosphere and hellish-hot surface. Our own moon ... The scientists who built the Huygens probe that made Titan real were, in their way, doing the same.