Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere which is comprised of thick hazes of 95 percent nitrogen ( | Space ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth largest moon ... could exist on Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and other distant moons, too. Now another moon appears to be ...

Titan has always been an intriguing satellite ... capture what appears to be clouds making their way across the surface of the moon. It’s an intriguing image that the researchers say has ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

Europa has a diameter of about 3,120 kilometers—which is roughly a quarter the diameter of Earth—and its surface ... on Jupiter’s moons Ganymede and Callisto and Saturn’s moons Titan ...

That is why astrobiologists are increasingly turning their eyes toward icy bodies like the Jovian moons of Europa and Ganymede, Saturn’s moons Titan and ... of life on Jupiter’s moon when ...

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in our Solar System, with around 400 volcanoes and extensive lava flows spread across its surface – but contrary to what scientists thought, a ...