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

The discovery that molecules of methane and ethane can worm their way into the crystal lattice of frozen hydrogen cyanide has ...

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

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 ...

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

In a discovery that could rewrite chemistry textbooks, scientists have found that Saturn’s largest moon Titan allows molecules that usually repel each other to combine under extreme cold, defying one ...

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 ...

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

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

Scientists found new evidence to strengthen the case that Enceladus, small moon of Saturn about 310 miles wide, may have ...