6 August 2009, Rio de Janeiro: Saturn’s haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two pieces of ...

There is no shortage of interest in Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, surface lakes and seas, and cycles that mirror Earth’s in eerie, hydrocarbon-based forms have ...

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, represents one of the most intriguing bodies in the Solar System, with its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere intermingled with significant quantities of methane and complex ...

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay apart. But researchers from Chalmers University in Sweden and NASA’s Jet ...

“Nobody was expecting very strong energy dissipation inside Titan,” says Flavio Petricca, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That surprise signal, wrung from archival Cassini ...

The first radar images of Saturn’s moon Titan show a very complex geological surface that may be relatively young. Previously, Titan’s surface was hidden behind a veil of thick haze. “Unveiling Titan ...

Our planet isn't the only heavenly body with liquid on its surface. Scientists from the University of Arizona and NASA on Wednesday announced at least one of the large, lakelike features on a moon of ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's vast subsurface ocean. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...