NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

"We conclude that Titan's uniquely rich organic inventory may not in fact be available to play the role in the moon's ...

Scientists have known for a while that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface.

Their results, published in The Planetary Science Journal, show that Titan could, in theory, support life, but only in tiny ...

Their study, published in the journal *Geophysical Research Letters*, shows that the threshold theory, used to study Earth's ...

If there's life in the solar system beyond Earth, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, seems a logical place to find it. A new study says maybe, but in tiny amounts.

Oct. 25, 2024 — A new study has revealed that methane gas may be trapped within the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan, forming a distinct crust up to six miles thick, which warms the underlying ...

Titan is Saturn’s largest moon, imaged here in front of its host ... and sustaining life as we know it — is markedly absent. Surface temperatures of –290 degrees Fahrenheit (–180 degrees ...

What potential signs of life could exist on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan? This is what NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only body beyond Earth known to host stable bodies of liquid on its surface. | Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho Scientists have known ...

Such a tiny biosphere would average less than one cell per liter of water over Titan’s entire vast ocean,” said Antonin Affholder, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona. The ...