A view of Huygens probable landing site on Titan (white circle) based on initial, best-guess estimates. ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, on Jan. 14, 2005. A view of Titan ...

The surface of Saturn's huge moon Titan has the consistency of soft, wet sand with a fragile crust on top, a new analysis of a nearly eight-year-old space probe landing suggests. Researchers ...

2005-01-15 04:00:00 PDT Darmstadt, Germany-- A bold and perilous space adventure into a far-off unknown world achieved an extraordinary success Friday as Europe's Huygens probe descended to a safe ...

The surface of Saturn's huge moon Titan has the consistency of soft, wet sand with a fragile crust on top, a new analysis of a nearly eight-year-old space probe landing suggests. Researchers ...

This image is an artist's impression of the descent and landing sequence followed by ESA's Huygens probe that landed on Titan. The Jan. 14, 2005 landing was the culmination of a 22-year process of ...

On August 14, 2005, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygens probe landed by parachute on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. To commemorate the eighth anniversary of this historic event, ...

Ten years ago Nasa and the ESA landed a probe on Titan. It marked humanity's first landing in the outer solar system and sent back stunning pictures of that distant world. To mark the occasion a video ...

As NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft begins its final eight months of operation, scientists are looking back at one of the mission's most dramatic moments: the landing of the piggyback Huygens ...

The ESA's Cassini-Huygens mission achieved the first landing on a moon beyond Earth's, specifically Saturn's moon Titan, in 2005. The Huygens lander, detached from the Cassini probe in December 2004, ...

Eight years ago this week, a European mission went where no probe had gone before — Saturn's huge moon Titan — and a new video animation is recounting that historic landing by the Huygens spacecraft.

NASA is helping commemorate the landing of the Huygens space probe on Saturn's moon Titan 10 years ago with the release of photos and a video celebrating the first landing on an outer solar system ...

The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for surfing. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that most waves on Titan's lakes ...