Titan

How Can Titan Maintain its Atmosphere?

Saturn’s moon Titan is perhaps one of the most fascinating moons in the Solar System. It’s the second largest of…

1 week ago

SLS Could Launch A Titan Balloon Mission

Few places in the solar system are better suited to a balloon than Titan. The combination of low gravity and…

4 weeks ago

A Mission to Dive Titan’s Lakes – and Soar Between Them

Titan is one of the solar system's most fascinating worlds for several reasons. It has something akin to a hydrological…

1 month ago

Dragonfly is Going to Titan on a Falcon Heavy

NASA has given SpaceX the contract to launch the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan. A Falcon Heavy will send…

2 months ago

Titan May Have a Methane Crust 10 Km Thick

Saturn's moon, Titan, is an anomaly among moons. No other moons have surface liquids, and aside from Earth, it's the…

3 months ago

Experimental Radar Technique Reveals the Composition of Titan’s Seas

The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn generated so much data that giving it a definitive value is impossible. It's sufficient to…

7 months ago

Lake Shorelines on Titan are Shaped by Methane Waves

Distant Titan is an oddball in the Solar System. Saturn's largest moon—and the second largest in the entire Solar System—has…

8 months ago

Titan Probably Doesn’t Have the Amino Acids Needed for Life to Emerge

Does Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, possess the necessary ingredients for life to exist? This is what a recent study published…

12 months ago

How Did Life Get Started on Earth? Atmospheric Haze Might Have Been the Key

A recent study accepted to The Planetary Science Journal investigates how the organic hazes that existed on Earth between the…

1 year ago

Titan’s “Magic Islands” Could Be Floating Blobs of Organic Solids

When the Cassini spacecraft returned radar scans of the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, the results were mindblowing. It revealed…

1 year ago