For years, scientists have been intrigued by Titan as an alien world that might have the right conditions to host life, ...

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

New research indicates that cellular "pockets" that are the first step toward protocells, the precursors of life, could form ...

The hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may host chemical mechanisms capable of forming structures resembling ...

Scientists may be one step closer to understanding whether life could have formed in the methane lakes of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. This life, if it exists, would look very different from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 … ...

Titan has become a center of increasing attention as of late. Discoveries from Cassini have only increased interest in the solar system's second-largest moon. Liquid on its surface has already ...

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 ...