The images were taken by the Huygens probe, which reached the surface of Titan on Friday morning after being launched from the Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn. Jean-Jacques Dordain ...

This composite image shows an infrared view of Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during a high-altitude fly-by, ...

Earth, as seen by Cassini's radar. In order to understand what landforms on Titan could be seen by Cassini's radar, researchers looked at well-known Earth landforms through Cassini's perspective. The ...

"The Huygens descent and landing represented ... However, the orbiter won't have many more chances to capture photos of Titan. Cassini is nearing the end of its mission at Saturn.

Lunine and other Huygens team members are still poring over the 219 minutes' worth of Titan images, and expect to learn more from the Cassini orbiter, which dropped off the probe last December and ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

In December, the spacecraft skimmed by Saturn's outer rings, snapping some of the most detailed images we have ever seen. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science NASA's Cassini ...

Cassini’s radar imager peered through Titan’s thick atmosphere, providing data to create a map of its surface. Relying on data gathered by NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn, researchers have ...

Ride along on the outside of Huygens as it parachutes through Titan's atmosphere at nearly ... it turns out. And then Cassini used it to lock onto Huygens. You can do one critical piece of science ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing ... But it’s the moons that have stolen the show for we know now that Enceladus and Titan are thought to have the right conditions for life.

At 5 am ET on Wednesday, NASA will fly its $3.26 billion Cassini spacecraft where no spacecraft has flown before — in the deepest region of Saturn's rings between the planet and its inner-most ring.