Recent observations have revealed that the chemistry on Saturn’s moon Titan is more complex and unusual than previously ...

On Saturn's largest moon, Titan, molecules that would never mix on Earth are mixing together, seemingly defying a fundamental rule of chemistry.

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 ...

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

These infrared images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, were created with 13 years of data acquired by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Saturn’s moon Titan is often pegged as ...

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 ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid water—possibly as deep as 300 miles. While its surface hosts lakes of methane and ...

The discovery that molecules of methane and ethane can worm their way into the crystal lattice of frozen hydrogen cyanide has ...

The presence of life on Earth is tied in multiple ways to the presence of one substance — water. Water is the biggest component in most living organisms and has the power to leave a long-lasting ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures an infrared view of Saturn moon Titan during a November 2015 flyby in this composite image. Credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / University of Idaho Saturn’s ...