The disappearing “magic islands” on Saturn’s largest moon Titan have intrigued scientists since NASA’s Cassini mission spotted them during flybys a decade ago. Now, researchers believe they have ...

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 ...

Enormous lakes and seas filled with liquid methane on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan may have been crafted by the power of waves. Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest moon in our ...

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Six months after NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reaches Saturn in July 2004, it will deploy the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. A cold, dark, ...

(a) Sedimentary pathways on Titan as inferred from Cassini data. Dune sands, lakes, and seas were mapped by Lopes et al. (2020), alluvial fans by Birch et al. (2016), fluvial valleys and associated ...

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

Future explorers of Saturn’s moon Titan may get to surf on waves of rocket fuel. The icy shorelines of Titan’s southern lakes may be sculpted by waves of liquid methane, according to a recent study. A ...

Titan holds a particular fascination for scientists. Not only is it the only moon in the solar system known to have a significant atmosphere — about 1 1/2 times as dense as Earth’s — but it is also ...

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Saturn’s moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are composed ...

A new hypothesis reveals that a global sedimentary cycle driven by seasons could explain the formation of landscapes on Saturn's moon Titan. The research shows the alien world may be more Earth-like ...