Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 25, 1655, Saturn's moon Titan was discovered by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (a name that you've probably heard ...

17th century scientist Christiaan Huygens set his sights on faraway Saturn, but he may have been nearsighted. Huygens is known, in part, for discovering Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and deducing the ...

Christiaan Huygens built excellent lenses in the 17th century, but his telescopes lacked sharpness in comparison with what was possible at that time. In a recent study, Dr. Alex Pietrow, researcher at ...

17th century scientist Christiaan Huygens set his sights on faraway Saturn, but he may have been nearsighted. Huygens is known, in part, for discovering Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and deducing the ...

[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for the ...

The first analyses of data sent by the Huygens probe from Saturn's largest moon Titan are flooding in. They paint a picture of a ‘Peter Pan’ world — potentially like Earth, but with its development ...

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 ...

DARMSTADT, Germany — Rivers? At 292 degrees below zero? As the images came streaking across the cosmos from Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists grew increasingly ecstatic: remarkable, a fantasy, a Lake ...