The Huygens probe landed on Titan on 14 January this year, and seven papers published in this issue record the encounter. They describe a world that resembles a primitive Earth, complete with ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens not only proposed the earliest theory about the nature ...

While Huygens will remain on this trajectory till it plunges into Titan’s atmosphere on 14 January, the orbiter will perform a deflection manoeuvre on 28 December to avoid crashing onto the moon.

Kneijnsberg honors the Dutch scientist and inventor Christiaan Huygens with a brilliant twist on an automatic Day-Date ...

Huygens is known for, among other things, his contribution to astronomy. He discovered Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and also studied the planet’s rings.

The Huygens lander discovered the channels, which are about 40 m wide. “To see these drainage channels for the first time—to have [the images] shout ‘rain, precipitation, erosion’—it was ...

With a diameter of about 5,150 kilometres, Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. It has a dense atmosphere which we mostly cannot see through. Until recently, Titan was one of the few objects in the ...

"Huygens has provided ground truth for Cassini," Lebreton said. As captivated as they were by what Huygens discovered in a 3.5-hour descent and landing on Titan on Jan. 14, ...

Dear Huygens, I owe you and your people an apology. Although I was working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on data from your companion orbiter Cassini at the time, I don’t remember where I ...

Huygens is known for, among other things, his contribution to astronomy. He discovered Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and also studied the planet’s rings.