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 ...
Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d nicknamed ...
A puzzling image from the Huygens probe's 2005 Titan landing, showing river-like channels, continues to intrigue scientists.
- George's Choice: The black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster has been associated with sound for years, since astronomers discovered that pressure waves sent out by the black hole ...
A single photograph taken during Huygens’ 2005 descent onto Titan still puzzles scientists, revealing river-like channels ...
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 ...
I counted several factual errors in the Jan. 15 news story on the Huygens probe's landing on Titan: * Titan is now 750 million miles from Earth, not 900 million. Saturn is currently 840 million miles ...
A European space probe has landed on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan after a seven-year journey, a space official said Friday, buoying hopes that the mission could shed light on the origins of life ...
PASADENA, Calif., June 29 -- With its handlers waiting nervously 934 million miles away, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft headed toward a fateful rendezvous Tuesday, poised to pass between the rings of ...