Titan's vitality, evaluated in a new assessment using data gathered by NASA's Cassini mission and Huygens probe, has provided some stunning insights. It revealed that Saturn's moon could indeed ...

“Such a tiny biosphere would average less than one cell per liter of water over Titan’s entire vast ocean,” said co-lead author Antonin Affholder of a groundbreaking paper published in The Planetary ...

"We conclude that Titan's uniquely rich organic inventory may not in fact be available to play the role in the moon's habitability to the extent one might intuitively think." With rivers, lakes and ...

NASA scientists have found that cell-like compartments called vesicles, needed to form the precursors of living cells, could form in the lakes of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. This new research ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures an infrared view of Saturn moon Titan during a November 2015 flyby in this composite image. Credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / University of Idaho Saturn’s ...

There could be life as we know it, or rather as we don't know it, forming on Saturn's largest moon. reading time 3 minutes On December 25, 2004, the Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims ...

"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary for the origin of life." NASA scientists have found that cell-like ...