"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary ...

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.

Conor Nixon, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, says that finding vesicles on Titan would show an ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest in the solar system, is a world unlike any other. With a dense atmosphere ...

The huge moon's clouds, lakes and rain are made up of hydrocarbons, or molecules composed of hydrogen and carbon, such as methane and ethane. [Amazing Photos: Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon] You may ...

Scientists had never seen waves on Titan, in part because methane is viscous and doesn’t easily budge. Perhaps there simply wasn’t enough wind to move the thick liquid around.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest natural satellite in the Solar System behind Jupiter's moon Ganymede, has methane rain that can fill lakes as much as 330 feet deep, according ...

Saturn’s moon Titan is one of the most intriguing bodies in our solar system. Its dense atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane make it both beautiful and bizarre, as well as a tantalizing target ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the “tropics” of Saturn’s moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be about half the … ...

Future explorers of Saturn’s moon Titan may get to surf on waves of rocket fuel. The icy shorelines of Titan’s southern lakes may be sculpted by waves of liquid methane, according to a recent ...

New images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal a land of liquid methane and ethane lakes spotting the north pole of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...