The six close-up views of Titan’s surface shown here are composed of images acquired by the Cassini spacecraft during flybys in October (see Titan Mosaic: October 2004) and December (see Titan Mosaic: ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens in 1655 and certainly deserves its name. With a diameter of no less than 5,150 km, it is larger than Mercury and ...

Saturn’s moon Titan shows a sharp contrast between its smooth and rough edges in a new false-color radar image. Titan’s surface lies beneath a thick coat of hazy clouds, but Cassini’s radar instrument ...

On a pale morning in January 2005, a metallic object the size of a dishwasher descended through the thick haze of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Moving at just over four meters per second, the Huygens ...

These images of Titan’s south polar region were acquired during Cassini’s first distant encounter with the smog-enshrouded moon on July 2, 2004. The spacecraft approached Titan at a distance of about ...

Titan has always been an intriguing satellite. Not only is this moon that orbits Saturn believed to be intricate and complex, but it also looks eerily similar to the Earth whenever you look at it. In ...

Behold Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. It appears in rare form in new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) imagery, and astronomers are thrilled. Titan has weather, albeit alien to humans. It’s the only ...

DARMSTADT, Germany A European space probe Friday sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon Titan, showing stunning black and white images of what appeared to be ...

Artist's conception of Titan's surface. This moon of Saturn is one of the worlds in the Solar System that most resembles Earth, despite the temperature there reaching -179° Celsius. It is the only ...