6 August 2009, Rio de Janeiro: Saturn’s haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two pieces of ...

There’s no place like Earth anywhere else in the solar system, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re alone. Scientists have identified a number of places where life might have once existed and where ...

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Science. Avi Loeb's warning about 3I/ATLAS before December 19: "Let's hope we don't get unexpected gifts for the holidays" Science. It could be the atlas of our era: scientists publish a 3D map that ...

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay apart. But researchers from Chalmers University in Sweden and NASA’s Jet ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the ...

For years, scientists envisioned Titan, Saturn's largest moon, as a world with a vast subsurface ocean, similar to other icy moons. However, a recent study overturns this perspective by suggesting the ...

In late 2023 American space agency NASA was still looking with hope in its eyes at the president's fiscal year 2025 budget request, hoping that its many exciting missions planned for the next few ...

While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way. Reading time 3 minutes Saturn’s moon Titan is often pegged as one of the ...

During its closest flyby of Saturn’s moon Titan on April 16, the Cassini spacecraft came within 1,027 kilometers (638 miles) of the moon’s surface and found that the outer layer of the thick, hazy ...