Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its historic parachute descent onto Titan's surface on Jan. 14, 2005. At the moment this image was ...

Titan - Saturn's moon with hydrocarbon lakes under a dense atmosphere First discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan is the largest of the 82 moons of Saturn we have ...

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 ...

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 shorelines reminiscent of Earth, and extensive ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its ...

Dragonfly will be the second craft to visit Titan, along with the Huygens probe and its short visit back in 2005. Titan is remarkable because it's the only body besides Earth with liquids on its ...

Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just ...

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

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

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 ...