Titan’s harsh chemistry breaks basic rules, offering new clues about how life’s building blocks might form in space.

We tend to think of the weather as mundane, the sort of boring things you talk about when you have nothing else to say, but in the scope of the solar system, it’s one of the most interesting things ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d nicknamed ...

Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface. Ironically, ...

A blurry image of a round, celestial object similar in appearance to Earth was posted on X (formerly Twitter) by the account @Reineguerrieree in April 2024 alongside a claim it showed Saturn's largest ...

A depiction of Saturn's moon Titan, the only other world in the solar system where scientists believe there are surface oceans. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Earth isn't the only world in ...

Enormous lakes and seas filled with liquid methane on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan may have been crafted by the power of waves. Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest moon in our ...

Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and ...

Titan's ocean has a volume 12 times that of all Earth's oceans, but it may be barren of life as we know it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest in the solar system, is a strange place. Like Earth, it has lakes and seas; unlike on Earth, those bodies are filled with liquid methane. Titan also ...