Scientists have found cell-like compartments called vesicles on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, which could form the precursors ...

Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of ...

The hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may host chemical mechanisms capable of forming structures resembling ...

Titan, with its thick atmosphere, extremely cold surface temperature, and suspected surface composition of various exotic hydrocarbons, would seem worlds away from the comparatively more Earth ...

Saturn's cryptic moon Titan bears scars of violent activity on its surface that make the ringed planet's satellite at once more familiar and more mysterious than scientists say they ever expected ...

Cassini arrived in orbit around the ringed planet in July 2004, and has since made 78 flybys of Titan, the planet's largest moon. Currently, 48 more flybys are planned from now until the year 2017.

“With an average surface temperature hovering around -180°C (-356°F), water cannot exist on Titan except as deep-frozen ice as strong as rock,” Lopes said.

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and data on the system ever taken. This included Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ...

Alien planets in orbit around red dwarfs, and even rogue planets with no stars to call home, might have surface oceans loaded with organic compounds, making them similar to Saturn's moon Titan, a ...

NASA investigators now have the most detailed pictures ever taken of Titan. But the images can't penetrate the mystery that surrounds the Saturnian moon. By Amit Asaravala.

Alien planets in orbit around red dwarfs, and even rogue planets with no stars to call home, might have surface oceans loaded with organic compounds, making them similar to Saturn's moon Titan, a ...

Alien planets in orbit around red dwarfs, and even rogue planets with no stars to call home, might have surface oceans loaded with organic compounds, making them similar to Saturn's moon Titan, a ...