A discovery about Saturn's moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry. There, in the extreme cold, some supposedly fundamentally incompatible molecules may combine ...

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay apart. But researchers from Chalmers University in Sweden and NASA’s Jet ...

There is no shortage of interest in Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, surface lakes and seas, and cycles that mirror Earth’s in eerie, hydrocarbon-based forms have ...