On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a European spacecraft that hitched a ride to the Saturn system with Cassini.

For in depth coverage of Huygens at Titan and the Cassini mission, including the first sounds from an alien moon, visit The Planetary Society’s website at http ...

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As the Huygens spacecraft floated by parachute toward Saturn's mystery moon Titan last month, scientists feared that the results of one crucial experiment were lost forever in a communications ...

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. Larry ...

NASA’s Cassini has begun to relay data received from the ESA Huygens lander as it descended through Titan’s atmosphere. They will be posted here as they become available. This is one of the first raw ...

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 ...

On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride on NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Saturn's largest moon Titan. It parted ways ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a European ...