In the search for life beyond Earth, few places are as intriguing as Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. It’s the only spot in the solar system where there are lakes and seas on the surface – only they’re not made of water. Titan’s lakes overflow with liquid methane and ethane, producing a cold, bizarre, and mysterious world. Scientists have been exploring …
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Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, sweeping across the planet’s cloud tops. Once every 15 years, Saturn‘s tilted orbit brings its iconic rings — and Titan‘s orbital path — into an edge-on alignment with Earth. This event, known as …
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NASA scientists have found that cell-like compartments called vesicles, needed to form the precursors of living cells, could form in the lakes of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. These lakes and Titan‘s seas are filled with liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane rather than water. And though we know water is a key ingredient of life on Earth, astrobiologists have theorized …
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