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Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane. Washington State University researchers are working with NASA to determine …
The majority of Earth is covered in an ocean of liquid water, but the other worlds in our Solar System are a whole lot different. Most don’t have any kind of liquid on their surface, and while we kno…
Ligeia Mare, a look at the second largest known body of liquid on the Surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Titan, Saturn’s giant satellite, is more Earth-like than previousl…
Thanks to the efforts of NASA and its incredibly reliable Cassini spacecraft, we now know more about Saturn and its moons than ever before, but it seems there are still some surprises in store for sc…
Saturn’s moon Titan may be nearly a billion miles away from Earth, but a recently published paper based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveals a new way this distant world and our own are eer…
Scientists have made yet another sensational discovery in the search for alien life in our solar system. Astronomers have now found a key molecule for the formation of microorganisms in the atmospher…
Scientists recognize Titan as one of the leading contenders to find life elsewhere in the solar system. So far, Titan is the only celestial body in the solar system, aside from Earth, to be discovere…
NASA's newest mission will either land a quadcopter-like spacecraft on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan or collect a sample from the nucleus of a comet. The two proposals were selected fro…
Thanks to the efforts of NASA and its incredibly reliable Cassini spacecraft, we now know more about Saturn and its moons than ever before, but it seems there are still some surprises in store for sc…
A molecule that could help build otherworldly life is present on Saturn’s moon Titan, researchers have discovered. Vinyl cyanide, a compound predicted to form membrane like structures, is created in…
Instead of just sending humans on a one-shot mission to look for life on the surface, a new paper envisions a future outpost on Titan that could generate power for years. NASA and Elon Musk’s …
If we're going to go out beyond our home planet and begin construction of colonies somewhere else, then one of the vital resources we're going to require is energy – and a new study says Satu…
The European Space Agency’s Huygen spacecraft is an astonishing bit of technology. It left our little planet and landed on another world back in 2005, almost 10 years ago. Its target was Titan, one o…
Tweet An artist's view shows NASA's New Horizons satellite observing the Pluto-Charon system. The icy surface of Pluto may provide insight into not only the dwarf planet, but also severa…
