Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

A particular cornerstone of prebiotic chemistry is hydrogen cyanide, which, under the right conditions, forms compounds that ...

Hydrogen cyanide is what's described as a polar molecule, in the sense that it has one side with a positive electric charge ...

Titan’s harsh chemistry breaks basic rules, offering new clues about how life’s building blocks might form in space.

Scientists have found that on Titan, substances that should remain separate can actually combine under freezing conditions. NASA and Chalmers University researchers discovered that hydrogen cyanide ...

Recent studies of Saturn’s moon Titan have unveiled a surprising twist in the tale of extraterrestrial chemistry. The icy surface of Titan hosts molecular combinations that defy established rules of ...

At the same time, significant reserves of organic material, combined with the subglacial ocean of water, seas of methane and ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has the ingredients for life, but scientists aren't sure what the chances are that it's inhabited. Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be among the most Earth-like ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d nicknamed ...

Photo cuts through haze to reveal some of the features on moon's surface. This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission ...