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For more than a decade, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft traced Saturn’s rings and moons, returning some of the most detailed planetary data ever collected. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, drew special focus.

Saturn’s largest moon Titan has been thought to have a large ocean below its surface. This discovery was made in 2008 by the Cassini mission. However, the Jet Propulsion Lab as been analyzing that ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth's polar seas, with pockets of ...

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is the only place other than Earth known to have an atmosphere and liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface. Because of its extremely cold temperature, ...

What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers at the University of ...

For years, Titan sat near the top of the shortlist of worlds that might host life, thanks to the idea of a vast hidden ocean beneath its frozen crust. That picture has now shifted dramatically, as new ...

“Nobody was expecting very strong energy dissipation inside Titan,” says Flavio Petricca, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That surprise signal, wrung from archival Cassini ...