Titan—an alien world that looks like Earth but is anything but! With vast methane lakes, plastic-like mountains, and a dense atmosphere, this Saturnian moon could be our best shot at colonization ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M. Keck Observatory/Judy Schmidt | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Laboratory experiments have confirmed a theory explaining how Titan, Saturn's moon, maintains its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its lower gravity ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments that recreate the conditions of Saturn's moon Titan in a tiny vial.

Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its historic parachute descent onto Titan's ... above Saturn's largest moon. The probe's descent ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Saturn’s largest and brightest moon, 8th-magnitude Titan, lies a little over 2.5’ east of the planet tonight. But there’s a rarer sight on display: Saturn’s moon Iapetus, now roughly 11th ...

SwRI is studying how Saturn’s largest moon maintains its thick atmosphere. Scientists think Titan’s core is covered by several layers of ice and a subsurface liquid ocean. New experiments indicate ...

possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon Titan. As the team gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeuvre that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space, it becomes ...

The Titan missiles that launched ... And as for the celebrated Saturn 5, the magnificent machine that launched the Apollo astronauts to the moon? “This was a disaster,” Chris Kraft, NASA ...