Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...

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 force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only place other than Earth ... and the surface is made of solid water ice. A new study published in The Planetary Science Journal, led by planetary scientists ...

Titan - Saturn's moon with hydrocarbon lakes under a dense atmosphere First discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan is the largest of the 82 moons of Saturn we have ...

And if that water mixed with methane-based molecules ... Yes, just like our own moon, Titan orbits a planet. But it actually looks and behaves more like an Earth. And that's why, for this mission ...

Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just 40% the diameter of the Earth, Titan has an atmosphere 1.5 times as dense ...

Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere ... it because of its extremely low temperature the absence of liquid water," said Fabien Kenig, professor of earth and environmental sciences ...

Most of Titan's lakes are thought to have formed when liquid methane dissolved the moon's icy bedrock to sculpt reservoirs - similar to the way water has dissolved limestone to form lakes on Earth.

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 ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn ... show clear evidence of surface water. The sci-fi jungles of Venus pictured ...