Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is particularly captivating for scientists. This is thanks in large part to its status as the ...

SwRI is studying how Saturn’s largest moon maintains its thick atmosphere. Scientists think Titan’s core is covered by several layers of ice and a subsurface liquid ocean. New experiments ...

It is also the only moon in our solar system that has a significant atmosphere. For the SwRI and Carnegie experiments, the scientists set out to better understand how Titan maintains its thick ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon ...

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 ...

Yes, just like our own moon, Titan orbits a planet ... because, similar to on Earth, it has a thick atmosphere, which can keep the drone aloft. Dragonfly is built like a helicopter, able to ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational ...

Part robot, part space drone, Dragonfly will make the 759,000-mile eight-year journey to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Rivers, lakes, and seas across its surface are filled with not water ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon ...