After Titan's violent birth, its new orbit destabilized smaller moons. Resonant tugs drove collisions among Saturn's inner satellites. Most fragments would recombine into moons, but ice debris ...

New research suggests that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was formed through a violent collision between two moons around 100 to 200 million years ago.

A newly released high-resolution image offers the most detailed view of Saturn ever captured. From subtle cloud patterns to the intricate structure of its rings, the image reveals features that were ...

Saturn's largest moon, the smog-enshrouded Titan, could be the result of a dramatic merger between two other moons that ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

What would it feel like to be on Saturn's rings?

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born of the collision of two smaller moons, according to new research.

This hypothesis has the advantage of explaining why the rings have a lot of ice and little rock, in contrast to models where a moon strayed inside Saturn’s Roche limit and was pulled apart.

Titan orbits farther out, moving with steady confidence, whereas Saturn has always handled itself with a sort of serene ...

Scientists suggest Titan formed from a giant moon collision that also may explain Saturn’s rings and strange moon orbits.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WWNO listener Shyra Latiolais and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Saturn’s giant moon Titan and the planet’s famous rings may share a dramatic origin story. A new study suggests that Titan could have formed when two older moons smashed together, while the debris ...