A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...

Mere weeks away from its dramatic, mission-ending plunge into Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has a hectic schedule, orbiting the planet every week in its Grand Finale. On a few orbits, Saturn’s ...

During its final Grand Finale phase, Cassini performed death-defying maneuvers through Saturn’s rings and over its poles, ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet’s giant moon Titan. The spacecraft made its closest approach to Titan today ...

At a glance, Saturn’s rings appear calm and pristine when observed from afar. These rings are quite narrow and consist mainly ...

Under this new model, Titan itself is the result of a collision between two earlier moons: a large body called “Proto-Titan,” nearly as massive as modern Titan, and a smaller companion dubbed ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is often described as one of the most Earth-like places in the solar system. It features vast river networks, expansive lakes, and a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere. But ...

A single scenario could explain some of the odd features of Saturn's cosmic neighborhood. A project that set out to seek the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, which since 2008 thought to ...

Titan is a puzzle wrapped in mystery. Well, actually, it's wrapped in a dense atmosphere, but nonetheless, Titan's surface is a riddle only now beginning to be understood, thanks to a lot of new data ...

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