Discovered in 1655 by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan is Saturn’s largest moon - and one of the most Earth-like ...

On March 25, 1655, Saturn's moon Titan was discovered by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (a name that you've probably heard mispronounced as "Hoy-gens"). Titan is the largest moon of Saturn ...

One can’t think of a better way to honour Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini and Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, after whom the mission was named. Let us see how exactly the latter ...

Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team ...

In Olivier van Deuren’s “A Young Astronomer” (ca ... elucidations by Johannes Kepler of orbital mechanics and by Christiaan Huygens of the rings of Saturn. For a budding scientist like ...

Saturn’s first known moon, Titan, was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens 45 years later. The new batch of 128 moons was discovered by stacking images from the Canada France Hawaii ...

Nearly 50 years later, Dutch mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens announced those bulges ... Laura Driessen, an astronomer at University of Sydney, says. "The rings are mostly made ...

Saturn’s first known moon, Titan, was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens 45 years later. The new batch of 128 moons was discovered by stacking images from the Canada France Hawaii ...

Saturn’s first known moon, Titan, was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens 45 years later. Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ...

In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler ... At the end of that century, Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens wrote a book speculating on the conditions on other planets and ...

First spotted by Galileo as early as 1610, it was Christiaan Huygens who first identified ... James Keeler, an American astronomer who shared Maxwell’s first name, was in charge of the Allegheny ...