The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), in collaboration with the ground-based Keck II telescope, has for the first time ...

Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of ...

When NASA's upcoming Dragonfly probe skims the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan, it may encounter a froth akin to Earth's first ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

Wind, rain, volcanoes, tectonics and other Earth-like processes all sculpt features on Titan’s complex and varied surface in an environment more than 100°C colder on average than Antarctica.

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan.

The term ‘tholins’ was coined by Carl Sagan in 1979 to describe the complex organic molecules at the heart of prebiotic chemistry. Cassini has mapped about 20% of Titan’s surface with radar.

Set for launch in 2034, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will be a robotic rotorcraft for exploring Saturn’s moon Titan — a location that is particularly intriguing because it is thought to be ...