New research using Cassini data suggests Titan may not have a global ocean, but small warm water pockets hidden deep in its ...

Researchers have long been interested in Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and its icy environment, which harbors lakes, seas, sand dunes and a thick atmosphere full of nitrogen, methane, and complex ...

(CNN) — Before NASA’s Cassini mission ended its study of Saturn in 2017, it also flew by Saturn’s moon, Titan. The data provided by the Hyugens probe, which was part of the mission, suggested that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen, like Earth’s atmosphere, and is dense enough that an astronaut wouldn’t need a ...

New experimental results have cast doubt on earlier proposals suggesting that spherical, cell-like membranes could form in ...

Scientists have used data from NASA’s Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how the craters evolve and how weather ...

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, represents one of the most intriguing bodies in the Solar System, with its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere intermingled with significant quantities of methane and complex ...

The first radar images of Saturn’s moon Titan show a very complex geological surface that may be relatively young. Previously, Titan’s surface was hidden behind a veil of thick haze. “Unveiling Titan ...

"It is really surprising how closely Titan's surface resembles Earth's," says Rosaly Lopes, a planetary geologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, who is presenting the ...

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay apart. But researchers from Chalmers University in Sweden and NASA’s Jet ...