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Titan and Saturn as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

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Quantum effects could be key to the chemistry of life on Titan

Saturn’s moon Titan is too cold for many types of chemical reactions, but quantum tunnelling could present a loophole that would allow reactions that are crucial for life

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Clouds on Titan over 36 hours between November 4 and November 6, 2022, as seen by JWST (left) and Keck (right)

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JWST has taken pictures of clouds on Saturn’s moon Titan

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Scott Bolton on his missions to the gas giants of the solar system

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Scott Bolton on his missions to the gas giants of the solar system

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A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA Cassini spacecraft.

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Saturn’s moon Titan may be doomed to fly away or smash into the planet

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Weird ring-shaped molecule on Titan could be a building block to life

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Weird ring-shaped molecule on Titan could be a building block to life

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liquid on Titan's surface

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Saturn's moon Titan could be hiding underground reservoirs of methane

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We have the first full map of the weird surface features of Titan

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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Strange sand dunes on Titan could be made by cosmic rays hitting ice

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Strange sand dunes on Titan could be made by cosmic rays hitting ice

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This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft around the moon's Winnipeg Lacus.

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Titan’s odd-shaped lakes may have formed from underground explosions

Saturn’s moon Titan has some lakes that are strangely shaped and appear to have formed from explosions of underground nitrogen hundreds of millions of years ago

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NASA is sending a drone to fly around Titan looking for signs of life

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Titan’s seas may be coated in organic goop that stops waves forming

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Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there

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Saturn’s moon Titan has an alien lake district that looks like Earth

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