Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

After over 15 years in their designing role at Christiaan van der Klaauw Astronomical Watches, couple Daniël and Maria Reintjes are leaving their roles. Under their leadership, they have helped to ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it is, can both evoke the sublime.

When the probe — named Huygens, for the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens who discovered that world — transmitted its first pictures, the painted moonscape clashed with the real ...

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 ...

Discovered through telescopic observations by Christiaan Huygens in 1655, Titan has rivers, lakes, and seas of methane and ethane liquids, which follow an evaporation and precipitation cycle similar ...