In 2005, an alien probe flew through the hazy and cold atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and landed on the world's surface. That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent ...
The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put ...
A new study from SETI Institute scientists Dr. John Marshall and Dr. Lori Fenton suggests that wind on Titan might be able to ...
The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...
sometimes falling to Titan's surface as methane rain. Rhea is a heavily cratered moon composed of ice and rock. The frozen dirty snowball is tidally locked with Saturn, meaning one side always ...
Not that it was a competition, but Saturn surpassed Jupiter in known moons a few years ago. Now the giant planet may never ...
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is particularly captivating ... contributes to the organic material that covers a lot of Titan’s surface.” But this process would rid Titan of the methane ...
"Sure enough, we found 128 new moons." Saturn's first moon, Titan, was discovered in 1655 by Christiaan Huygens, and in the following decades, Jean-Dominique Cassini discovered Iapetus, Rhea ...
Harvard astronomers have announced the discovery of over 100 previously undiscovered moons orbiting the planet Saturn.
This small, icy moon is characterized by its highly reflective white surface and geyser-like jets ... system—such as Neptune's Triton, Saturn's Titan and Jupiter's Europa—and their potential ...
The arcs near the center are the orbits of Titan and Iapetus, two of Saturn's large outer moons. For scale, the white circle under the scale bar is the orbit of the moon around the Earth.