[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 ...

[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 ...

An astrophysicist has discovered that 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Christiaan Huygens was likely near-sighted by looking at designs for his telescopes. The rest of this article is behind ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers examine the Huygens probe after removal from the Cassini spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing ...

A new study has revealed that famous Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens was probably nearsighted, which explains why his telescopes weren't quite as good as his rivals'. When you purchase through ...

Hang two pendulum clocks on the same wall, and over time, something strange will happen: the two clocks will tick in synchrony. Renowned Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, the inventor of the ...

Christiaan Huygens attributed his 1655 discovery of Saturn’s largest moon Titan partly to “the quality of his telescope and partly to luck.” And now it seems luck has struck again in the latest Titan ...

In 1665 Christiaan Huygens discovered that two pendulum clocks, hung from the same wooden structure, will always oscillate in synchronicity. Today, some 350 years on, Eindhoven and Mexican researchers ...

Ten years ago today—Jan. 15, 2005—humanity reached out and touched another world. And it was a doozy. It was Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft, still on its way to entering ...

For millennia, humanity's one-and-only reliable way to keep time was based on the Sun. Over the course of a year, the Sun, at any location on Earth, would follow a predictable pattern and path through ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The Huygens probe twisted and spun as it tumbled to Titan's muddy ...