A new study suggests that the liquid methane lakes that dot Titan's surface may have formed when pockets of warming nitrogen exploded below the moon's surface.. This idea would solve a mystery ...

Titan, the second-largest moon in the solar system, is the only cosmic body beyond Earth known to host stable bodies of liquid on its surface. But Titan's lakes and seas are full of methane, not ...

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.

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 ...

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 largest moon Titan is an eerie world about the size of Mercury. It is the only moon in the solar system with a thick, hazy atmosphere and the only place aside from Earth that has large bodies ...

New research indicates that waves likely play a significant role in shaping the shorelines of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, which is the only other planetary body in the solar system known to ...

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 ...

The dark oval marks what scientists think is a lake of methane lying close to the southern pole (red cross) of Saturn’s moon Titan. The brightest features seen in this image, taken June 6, 2005 ...

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 … ...