Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d nicknamed ...

Titan's shadow will fall over Saturn during the early morning hours of Sept. 4. Heads up stargazers! The shadow of Saturn's ...

In 2005, ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan, revealing the atmosphere, landscapes, and chemistry of Saturn's moon.

We tend to think of the weather as mundane, the sort of boring things you talk about when you have nothing else to say, but in the scope of the solar system, it’s one of the most interesting things ...

This is a challenging mission for a number of reasons, beginning with getting down to the surface. Because Titan has a thick atmosphere, it will take about 90 minutes for the spacecraft to descend.

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has the ingredients for life, but scientists aren't sure what the chances are that it's inhabited. Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be among the most Earth-like ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid water—possibly as deep as 300 miles. While its surface hosts lakes of methane and ...

Photo cuts through haze to reveal some of the features on moon's surface. This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission ...

After the Cassini spacecraft flew by Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists were left with some puzzling evidence. Flows on the moon’s surface appeared to be eruptions of frozen oxygen, methane, and ammonia.

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a ...

Astronomers were occupied with Mars at the moment, but Saturn’s moon might be turning their heads with a new observation. The pairing of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the ground-based ...