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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has the ingredients for life, but scientists aren't sure what the chances are that it's inhabited. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.

An ocean within Titan was never going to be easy to detect — and not just because it’s buried beneath the surface. Jupiter’s moon Europa has a buried ocean too, but it has no atmosphere ...

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 ...

A 6-mile-thick shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's vast subsurface ocean.