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

Titan—an alien world that looks like Earth but is anything but! With vast methane lakes, plastic-like mountains, and a dense atmosphere, this Saturnian moon could be our best shot at colonization ...

The probe carried instruments to study Titan's ... rivers and lakes appeared dry when Huygens touched down, evidence suggested that liquid methane may have flowed across the moon's surface not ...

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 ...

NASA’s Cassini mission was exploring Saturn, finding methane lakes on Titan and plumes erupting from its tiny moon, Enceladus, reminiscent of Yellowstone’s geysers. After a postdoc stint at UVa, ...

One of Honeybee's future robots will fly across the otherworldly lakes and skies of Saturn's moon ... [+] Titan, shown in this ... water extraction, LOX/methane production [for rocket fuel ...

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

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.

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.