A proposed path for life to form on Titan appears to be closed by experiments on how compounds behave under conditions similar to those on Saturn’s largest moon. The work cannot test every potential ...

An experiment mimicking conditions on the Saturn moon suggests that cell-like bubbles don’t form in methane lakes, puncturing hopes for alien life.

Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun. A research team from the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS at ...

A space craft carried an 11K Titan miles above Earth, then it stopped transmitting. The Dorothy mission’s near-disaster now has a remarkable ending.

A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon’s surface today. The Moon’s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ...

The curious minds at What If analyze how replacing our Moon with Titan would cause devastating twice-daily megafloods.

On the night of September 18, 1980, a Titan II missile carrying a thermonuclear warhead exploded in rural Arkansas. Here’s what the terrifying incident was like, from those who were there.

Published in January by Random House Worlds, "Detour" is the new mystery sci-fi novel from veteran TV writer Jeff Rake ("Manifest") and bestselling author Rob Hart ("The Warehouse") Laced with ...

A big step in the exploration of other planets in our solar system is within reach as NASA makes a big announcement.