Saturn’s largest moon has long looked like a frozen time capsule of early Earth, but a new set of measurements has upended that tidy story. NASA and partner observatories have uncovered unexpected ...
The six infrared images of Titan above were created by compiling data collected over the course of the Cassini mission. They depict how the surface of Titan looks beneath the foggy atmosphere, ...
Researchers have long been interested in Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and its icy environment, which harbours lakes, seas, sand dunes and a thick atmosphere full of nitrogen, methane, and complex ...
Titan orbits farther out, moving with steady confidence, whereas Saturn has always handled itself with a sort of serene ...
Scientists suggest Titan formed from a giant moon collision that also may explain Saturn’s rings and strange moon orbits.
Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini's 13-year mission expanded our understanding of ...
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery that challenges one of the basic rules of chemistry and provides new knowledge ...