Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is particularly captivating for scientists. This is thanks in large part to its status as the ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

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 ...

In 2005, an alien probe flew through the hazy and cold atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and landed on the world's surface. That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent ...

How Titan Maintains Its Atmosphere Jan. 27, 2025 — Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere.

Chemical weathering leads to soil formation, determines nutrient availability to organisms and influences the drawdown of atmospheric carbon dioxide. A new modelling study suggests that contrary ...

The ACCESS project sponsored by NASA focuses on estimating the probability of failure for a forebody heatshield during atmospheric re-entry in Titan atmosphere, where uncertainties exist in both input ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational ...