The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

New research reveals more about why Saturn's large moon tilts, a puzzle that has intrigued scientists for decades.

How Titan maintains its atmosphere Laboratory experiments produced gases similar to those on Saturn's moon Date: January 27, 2025 Source: Southwest Research Institute ...

Titan may have a home-baked atmosphere. Saturn’s largest moon gets some of its thick atmosphere by cooking organic molecules in a warm core, a new study suggests. The decay of radioactive ...

Titan is the only moon in the solar system with a significant atmosphere, and one that has long captivated planetary scientists.Now, after 13 years of thermal infrared observations from Cassini ...

How did Saturn's moon Titan secure an atmosphere when no other moons in the solar system did? The answer lies largely in its size and location. Here, Titan as imaged in May 2005 by the Cassini ...

Now, new experimental research published Feb. 1 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta shows that the chemical compounds in Titan’s atmosphere could emerge from processes in its interior, offering a ...

How does Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, have such a methane-rich atmosphere? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Scientists recreate atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon in tiny glass vials to look for signs of life. Titan, with its stable pools of surface liquid, acts as a natural laboratory to study the ...

How can seasons on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, influence its atmosphere? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, hazy atmosphere, and it's often compared to a primitive Earth.