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

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere which is comprised of thick hazes of 95 percent nitrogen ( | Space ...

Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

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 ...

SwRI is studying how Saturn’s largest moon maintains its thick atmosphere. Scientists think Titan’s core is covered by several layers of ice and a subsurface liquid ocean. New experiments indicate ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Laboratory experiments have confirmed a theory explaining how Titan, Saturn's moon, maintains its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its lower gravity ...