Huygens did not have the capability to transmit data back to Earth. And it relied on the Cassini spacecraft flying overhead. Instead of having to carry something big enough to transmit the billion ...

That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent from Earth by the European Space Agency along with the Cassini spacecraft to help humanity learn more about Saturn and its 53 known moons.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons. Scientists have watched a new band of the ring form and witnessed the changing of seasons on this gas ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

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 ...