This summer, skywatchers will be treated to a rare spectacle visible from Earth: the shadow of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, ...

A black hole will shoot across the surface of Saturn in the coming days, and this is your only chance to see it for the next 15 years. The black hole has already transited three times, and it will do ...

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...

Titan is easily one of the most unique bodies known to exist. It's the second-largest moon in our solar system behind Jupiter's Ganymede, and the only body with a complex atmosphere suitable for life.

Larger than the planet Mercury, its equatorial diameter of 3,200 miles (5,100 km) positions Titan comfortably as the solar system’s second-biggest moon (after Jupiter’s Ganymede), and the only ...

But Ganymede is closer to the Sun than Titan is, and that solar radiation gradually stripped molecules away from the moon’s atmosphere, leaving it the mostly bare sphere of ice we observe today.

The moored passive acoustic recorder was about 900 miles from the Titan submersible implosion site, according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Titan Marine Board of Investigation (MBI).

This effect is particularly interesting in the case of large icy moons like Ganymede, Callisto, and Titan, but also for cold ocean exoplanets like Trappist 1e-g and water-rich rogue exoplanets." ...

This is more likely to occur if Titan’s ice shell is warm and convecting.” We’ll find out when Dragonfly arrives at Titan in 2034. Mark your calendars.

Analyzing Titan’s Craters with Computer Modeling Examining the dynamics of Titan’s craters using computer models, Schurmeier and her team began to test how the surface of Saturn’s largest moon might ...

Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface. Ironically ...

Proposed diagram of Titan’s interior (not to scale), showing a methane clathrate crust over a convecting ice shell. Credit: Schurmeier, et al., 2024 Research on Titan has uncovered a significant layer ...