When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Infrared-light images of Titan taken by the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2023 showing ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest in the solar system, is a strange place. Like Earth, it has lakes and seas; unlike on Earth, those bodies are filled with liquid methane. Titan also ...

Now, a study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk proposes an explanation linking the formation of the moons and rings, centering on the possibility that Titan is the product of a moon merger.

In a paper to be published in the Planetary Science Journal, scientists from SETI Institute, Southwest Research Institute, Caltech and the Observatoire de Paris argue that Saturn’s largest moon is not ...

The Huygens’ probe landed on Titan, Saturn’s largest Moon, about twenty years ago, but a picture captured by it 2 decades back still puzzles scientists even today. When the Huygens probe pierced Titan ...

These infrared images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, were created with 13 years of data acquired by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA ...

Titan is the only moon in the solar system known to have a significant atmosphere. Rich in nitrogen and containing about 6 percent methane, its atmosphere is believed to be 1-1/2 times thicker than ...