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

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere, and the most Earth-like place we know of. It has rain, lakes, and oceans ...

Titan - Saturn's moon with hydrocarbon lakes under a dense atmosphere First discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan is the largest of the 82 moons of Saturn we have ...

What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d ...

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick ...

NASA's got a new mission on the horizon. Land an unmanned spacecraft on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. And explore the surface for evidence of potential alien life. The billion dollar mission will ...

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

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 ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...