Titan, Saturn's largest natural satellite, captivates scientists with its Earth-like processes, dense nitrogen atmosphere, ...

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

There are only two objects in the solar system with sustained pools of liquid on their surface: Earth and Titan. On Earth, we have a well-understood water cycle that keeps liquid water flowing on the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a surprise find, scientists say they have spotted hints of a methane-rich lake and several ponds near the equator of Saturn’s biggest moon. Lakes were previously spied near Titan ...

NASA scientists have found that cell-like compartments called vesicles, needed to form the precursors of living cells, could form in the lakes of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. This new research ...

What can Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, teach scientists about the chemistry of life? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a ...

Titan has permanent bodies of liquid on the surface like Earth, but they're liquid hydrocarbon instead of water. That doesn't explain the perplexing "bathtub rings" around Titan's seas, though. New ...

DARMSTADT, Germany — It is a desperately cold, forbidding landscape, but scientists said yesterday that Saturn’s moon Titan may have one thing found nowhere else in the solar system besides Earth: ...

Dive into Titan’s lakes for five seconds and see the extreme environment up close. Trump’s shutdown win just landed ...

Ellen Stofan ('83) talks about life as a planetary geologist Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan returned to her alma mater in April and talked up a storm—not your usual storm, but an incredibly cold ...