Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a minuscule amount of biomass, if life exists on the moon, according to a study ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like "sand ...

Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn's moon Titan have something important in common. Among all the ...

1 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta shows that the chemical compounds in Titan's atmosphere could emerge from processes in ...

(CNN) -- The Cassini spacecraft's most recent flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, found that its upper atmosphere is full of complex organic material, a discovery that could help unlock the ...

Saturn makes Titan's gases come out; Titan's size ensures some of them stick around in an atmosphere. Jupiter's moon Io, being so close to its humungous neighbor, has plenty of volcanic activity ...

In the upper layer of Titan's atmosphere, visible here in blue light, methane molecules are being dissociated by sunlight and recombining into ethane and acetylene molecules. Further down ...

It’s on Saturn’s moon Titan, a mysterious world hidden by a methane-rich atmosphere four times denser than Earth’s. A team of Titan watchers sees opportunity in that dense atmosphere.

Titan is the only moon in the solar system that has a big, thick atmosphere. And it actually has a pressure on the surface that's comparable to Earth. It's about one and a half times the surface ...