Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface.

What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers at the University of ...

image: Proposed diagram of Titan's interior (not to scale), showing a methane clathrate crust over a convecting ice shell. view more . Credit: Schurmeier, et al., 2024 ...

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is one of the most intriguing and mysterious worlds in our solar system. With a dense, hazy ...

Now, even if the moon had volatiles, it wouldn’t hold them as well as Titan does. It’s a lot warmer, because it’s 10 times closer to the sun. So any atmosphere it had, it would lose it faster.

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, hazy atmosphere, and it's often compared to a primitive Earth. But now ...

Flows on the moon’s surface appeared to be eruptions of frozen oxygen, methane, and ammonia. Just as volcanoes on Earth spew liquid magma that cools into rock, Titan may be spewing gases that ...

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

The scientific objectives of the upcoming Dragonfly mission to explore Saturn’s moon Titan are described in a new research paper, along with the instruments required to fulfill these goals. With ...

Recently, astronomers peered at Titan using the JWST and Keck observatories, revealing new insight into Titan’s bizarrely Earth-like weather. For More on Saturn’s Moon Titan ...

Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be among the most Earth-like worlds in the solar system, covered in lapping rivers and lakes, but new research suggests it likely couldn't support much life ...