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New research indicates that cellular "pockets" that are the first step toward protocells, the precursors of life, could form ...
There's something very peculiar about the atmosphere surrounding Titan, Saturn's largest moon: rather than staying constantly fixed in line with its surface, the atmosphere wobbles across the ...
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan.
A new study in the International Journal of Astrobiology explores the possibility that proto-cell structures called vesicles ...
Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, hazy atmosphere, and it's often compared to a primitive Earth.
A new study describes a process by which cell-like structures - known as vesicles - can form on Titan. Such structures are ...
Diagram depicting Titan's interior and how the moon's atmosphere is replenished. (Credit: Southwest Research Institute) This study comes as NASA is slated to launch the Dragonfly mission in 2028, ...
Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface.
Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest in the solar system, is a strange place. ... CH3 can form larger hydrocarbon molecules—the kind found in Titan's strange atmosphere.
Saturn’s largest moon Titan is the only place other than Earth known to have an atmosphere and liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface. Because of its extremely cold ...
How can seasons on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, influence its atmosphere? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated ...