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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 nicknamed ...
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has the ingredients for life, but scientists aren't sure what the chances are that it's inhabited. Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be among the most Earth-like ...
Looking for life on Saturn's largest moon Titan may be trickier than first thought. New computer simulations suggest that if life exists, there may not be a lot of it about. In fact, the mass probably ...
A depiction of Saturn's moon Titan, the only other world in the solar system where scientists believe there are surface oceans. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Earth isn't the only world in ...
Astronomers have recently discovered that nitrogen in Titan's atmosphere may have originated far from Saturn's womb in the dimly-lit and bitter cold Oort Cloud, ancient birthplace of comets. Saturn's ...
A puzzling image from the Huygens probe's 2005 Titan landing, showing river-like channels, continues to intrigue scientists. Despite frigid temperatures, these formations suggest liquid methane carved ...
Photo cuts through haze to reveal some of the features on moon's surface. This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission ...
Scientists have known for a while that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface. But it's strangely lacking in deltas, a new study suggests. On Earth, large ...
As detailed in a new paper published in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of scientists analyzed 13 years’ worth of thermal infrared observations recorded by NASA and the European Space Agency’s ...
All summer long, Short Wave has been on a 10-episode odyssey through the changing universe. We've covered planets, stars, life in space and even the possible ends of the universe. But there was one ...