NASA has discovered Saturn's moon Titan can mix molecules in ways previously thought impossible, shedding light on origins-of ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

What can Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, teach scientists about the chemistry of life? This is what a recent study published in ...

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