[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 created the first recognizable drawings of Mars' surface features during the fall of 1659, an achievement made possible by his advancements in telescope manufacturing. His November ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...