Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

New research reveals more about why Saturn's large moon tilts, a puzzle that has intrigued scientists for decades.

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is truly a remarkable world. It has a thick atmosphere as well as rivers, lakes, and seas of methane and hydrocarbons.

A UA research team has discovered that bombarding a nitrogen-rich gas mixture, designed to mimic the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon, Titan, ...

Inside of Titan, it's possible this combination would account for the nitrogen and methane that now reside in its atmosphere. Artist's conception of Huygens approaching Titan. (Image credit: NASA) ...

"Titan's atmosphere is made up mainly of nitrogen and methane, with 50% higher pressure at its surface than on Earth," said Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory), who led the study.

“One of the many cool things about Titan is its very thick atmosphere, which is mostly nitrogen,” she says. “But it also has an important five percent or so of methane.

How Titan maintains its atmosphere Laboratory experiments produced gases similar to those on Saturn's moon Date: January 27, 2025 Source: Southwest Research Institute ...

Saturn's cloudy moon Titan has a middle atmosphere containing organic compounds that could hold the potential for life. Now, a new look at that atmospheric layer by a NASA spacecraft shows that it ...

Keck and JWST investigated the layers of Titan’s atmosphere to estimate the altitude of clouds and track their movement over time. In observations taken days apart, astronomers watched clouds ...