NASA scientists have found that cell-like compartments called vesicles, needed to form the precursors of living cells, could form in the lakes of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. These lakes and Titan's ...

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

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

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

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