Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

The icy shell of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may possibly contain a six-mile-thick layer of methane ice beneath its surface. The methane layer could make it easier to detect signs of life from ...

Titan is Saturn’s largest moon and has thus been one of the most intriguing targets for observation around the ringed planet. In the latest images captured of the planetary satellite ...

Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface.

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only object in the Solar system other than Earth with liquids on its surface. Discovered through telescopic observations by Christiaan Huygens in 1655, Titan has ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

car-sized probe sports eight rotors that will enable it to fly through the thick atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, landing at times to sample the surface. Titan is the only moon in the solar ...

New Analysis of Cassini Data Yields Insights Into Titan's Seas July 16 ... Feb. 23, 2023 — Enceladus, the sixth largest of Saturn's moons, is known for spraying out tiny icy silica particles ...

But while Earth’s rivers and lakes are of liquid water, on Titan—the largest moon of Saturn—it’s liquid methane that sculpts the surface. Add Mars to the mix—where there’s a lot of ...

Recently, NASA selected the SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch the Dragonfly aerial probe to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The selection constitutes another win for Elon Musk’s launch company.

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

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 ...