While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

So, if life exists on Titan, it might not resemble the thriving, teeming ecosystems we know. Instead, think of isolated oases ...

Life-supporting energy and nutrients on Titan could come from its surface and core. Organic matter from Titan's atmosphere ...

The frozen dirty snowball is tidally locked with Saturn, meaning one side always faces toward the ringed giant. In 2010, the Cassini spacecraft detected a thin atmosphere — known as an exosphere ...

ALIEN life could be hiding away on the vast ocean of a nearby moon. Scientists say there’s a chance that a “small population” ...

A natural-color view of Saturn as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft after more than 13 years of surveying the gas giant. Six of Saturn's moons—Enceladus, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Pandora and ...

called plasma, which surrounds the ringed planet. Its fuel nearly spent, Cassini was intentionally sent to burn up in Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017.

That means, even if life does exist on Titan, it would be incredibly hard to find. The average number of microbes would be ...

The giant moon Titan in front of Saturn's edge-on rings, seen by the Cassini spacecraft in 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Each of the 128 new moons are between 2 and 4 ...

Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a ...