Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...

Saturn's largest moon ... the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface. Because of its extremely cold temperature, the liquids on Titan are made of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, might have a more violent past than astronomers realized. A new study suggests that the liquid methane lakes that dot Titan's surface may have formed when pockets of ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its ...

Titan’s floating islands are indeed real. Further, the islands appear to be physical honeycomb-shaped snow, which forms in the methane lakes that litter the moon’s surface. A space kayaker ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense atmosphere formed.

Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere ... cold that ethane and methane behave like liquids. A few weeks ago scientists found out more about how Titan’s small lakes work.

Titan - Saturn's moon with hydrocarbon lakes under a dense atmosphere First discovered in ... at a height of 200 to 300 kilometres and a high proportion of methane in its predominantly nitrogen ...

Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can ... "The presence of methane is critical to the existence of Titan's atmosphere," Miller says.

Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just 40% the diameter of the Earth, Titan has an atmosphere 1.5 times as dense ...

Uncovering lakes of liquid methane and possible ice volcanoes ... Land an unmanned spacecraft on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. And explore the surface for evidence of potential alien life.