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

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

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 ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense atmosphere formed.

Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and the only ... the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. "Walking on the surface of Titan would feel a bit like scuba diving." ...

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 ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich ...

Titan, the second-largest moon in our solar ... These would then release nitrogen and methane, which seeps out at the surface, forming the moon’s thick atmosphere. A diagram visualizing the ...

Earth has a variety of islands and bodies of water that resemble a heart. ESA takes you on a tour. Credit: ESA ...

The probe carried instruments to study Titan's smog-like atmosphere ... that liquid methane may have flowed across the moon's surface not long ago. The Huygens landing was part of the Cassini ...

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 ...