The spacecraft probe had still been transmitting data for over two hours after it had landed they confirmed.
"We are the first visitors to Titan," said an excited Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general of the European Space Agency (Esa).
It is also the furthest from Earth a spacecraft has ever been landed.
"In the morning we had an engineering success and this afternoon we can also say we have a scientific success," he added.
Scientists were now piecing together the data, images, measurements and sounds that was being beamed back to Earth.
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