NASA scientists have found that cell-like compartments called vesicles, needed to form the precursors of living cells, could form in the lakes of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. This new research ...

Saturn’s largest moon has long looked like a frozen time capsule of early Earth, but a new set of measurements has upended ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures an infrared view of Saturn moon Titan during a November 2015 flyby in this composite image. Credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / University of Idaho Saturn’s ...

For years, Titan sat near the top of the shortlist of worlds that might host life, thanks to the idea of a vast hidden ocean ...

Does Saturn’s moon Titan have a subsurface global ocean where life as we know it could exist? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Under the right conditions, life could theoretically evolve without water, claim researchers from Cornell University. Piggybacking off of a key discovery made by the Huygens probe, a team of ...

Could the hydrocarbon seas on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, have life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology hopes to address as a pair of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, which since 2008 thought to ...

(Nanowerk News) Extreme conditions prevail on Saturn's moon Titan. These have fascinated researchers for decades. A new study by Prof. Dr. Christian Mayer (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Dr. Conor ...

Cassini narrow-angle camera image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. There are complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, ...

Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn's largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...