With a diameter of 5,149 km, Titan is the second-largest moon in the entire solar system, larger even than the planet Mercury. It's the only moon with a dense atmosphere, and it's covered in ...

Could humans survive on other planets? What would it take to live on Mars, Venus, or even a moon like Titan? From low gravity ...

Titan is currently 759,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Saturn. The revised rate of its drift suggests that the moon started out much closer to Saturn, which would mean the whole system ...

Now, even if the moon had volatiles, it wouldn’t hold them as well as Titan does. It’s a lot warmer, because it’s 10 times closer to the sun. So any atmosphere it had, it would lose it faster.

The Cassini spacecraft, which has explored Saturn and its moons from close range for about 12 years, spotted a relatively high mountain peak on Titan, the ringed planet's largest moon.

The half-ton drone should have no problem achieving flight, as Titan’s gravity is one-seventh that of Earth’s, the winds are gentle, and the atmosphere is thick enough to produce lift.

The first global geologic map of Titan is based on radar and visible-light images from NASA’s Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. Labels point to several of the named ...

This is caused by the moon's gravity tugging on the planet, which creates a temporary bulge in the planet. That energy pushes the moon further away.

But it could fly through Titan's skies far more easily than those of Earth — the Saturn moon has seven times less gravity and more than three times denser atmosphere to give wings extra lift.

Titan, by contrast, is completely hidden from view beneath a thick, opaque atmosphere. Instead of relying on their eyes, the Cassini scientists thus relied on what’s known as tidal flexing.