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 ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, captivates scientists with its massive size, stunning rings, and diverse moons.

On Titan’s surface, liquid methane pools into seas and lakes. An artist imagines the lakes glowing red and depicts the moon’s thick crust of water ice, potentially with liquid water beneath it ...

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 ...

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.