A European probe has successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan, a mysterious satellite that has perplexed astronomers for decades, with science data still streaming down to researchers on the ground.

On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe made history by landing on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and sending back stunning ...

This is one of the first raw, or unprocessed, images from the European Space Agency's Huygens probe as it descended to Saturn's moon Titan January 14, 2005 and released January 14, 2005. It was ...

The Huygens probe had a special role within the mission. Equipped with six scientific multifunction instruments, it was designed to land on the surface of Titan and relay information gathered ...

PARIS-- Scientists piecing together data from Europe's Huygens probe to Saturn's moon Titan described the hazy satellite today as an environment in which a frequent rain of liquid methane falls ...

The international Cassini spacecraft launched a probe Friday on a three-week free-fall toward Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan, where it will plunge into the hazy atmosphere and descend by ...

Huygens scientists assembled this panoramic view of Titan from images taken 5 miles (8 km) up as the probe desended to the surface. This view, which shows terrain behind Huygens, shows a boundary ...

The prospect of the Huygens probe landing on a hard, soft or liquid surface when it lands on Titan on Friday still remain following further analysis of data taken during the Cassini mother ship's ...

On Friday, the Cassini spacecraft’s Huygens probe is scheduled to descend into the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Data from Huygens may offer clues about how life began on earth ...

Back to Article List Huygens heads for Titan The Cassini spacecraft successfully deploys Huygens, a probe destined to answer astronomers' questions about Saturn's haze-shrouded and enigmatic moon ...

Scientists will study Titan's thick atmosphere, clouds and virtually unseen surface with six science experiments on Huygens during the probe's roughly 2.5-hour descent.

An illustration shows the landing site of the Huygens probe on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. On January 14, 2005, Huygens completed the farthest landing on another world ever attempted.