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.

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is one of the most fascinating celestial bodies in our solar system. In this video, we explore the groundbreaking discoveries made by NASA about this mysterious moon.

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 Saturn’s largest moon Titan ...

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 ...

New research shows how cell-like vesicles could form in Titan’s methane lakes, hinting at possible steps toward life - without water.

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

A study led by Western astrobiologist Catherine Neish shows the subsurface ocean of Titan—the largest moon of Saturn—is most likely a non-habitable environment, meaning any hope of finding ...

Saturn’s moon Titan ripples with mountains, and scientists have been trying to figure out how they form. The best explanation, it turns out, is that Titan is shrinking as it cools, wrinkling up ...

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.

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 ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it is, can both evoke the sublime.