Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn's moon Titan have something important in common. Among all the ...

Titan offers up secrets to its methane lakes During its final flyby of Titan in 2017, the Cassini spacecraft trained its radar instruments onto the moon – peering beneath the obscuring cloud ...

Radar imagery from the Cassini spacecraft confirmed in 2006 that methane lakes exist on Titan. My first encounter with planetary science happened long before I started work at NASA’s Jet ...

“One of the many cool things about Titan is its very thick atmosphere, which is mostly nitrogen,” she says. “But it also has an important five percent or so of methane. And methane ...

These aren't your average lakes. They're called thermokarst lakes and they're filled with highly flammable methane gas. During the summer the gas bubbles to the surface and enters the atmosphere.