Ellen Stofan ('83) talks about life as a planetary geologist Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan returned to her alma mater in April and talked up a storm—not your usual storm, but an incredibly cold ...

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For years, Titan sat near the top of the shortlist of worlds that might host life, thanks to the idea of a vast hidden ocean beneath its frozen crust. That picture has now shifted dramatically, as new ...

What kinds of life could exist in Saturn’s largest moon, Titan? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Saturn’s largest moon has long looked like a frozen time capsule of early Earth, but a new set of measurements has upended that tidy story. NASA and partner observatories have uncovered unexpected ...

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 ...

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, represents one of the most intriguing bodies in the Solar System, with its dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere intermingled with significant quantities of methane and complex ...