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

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

Scientists reexamining data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered exciting new evidence from Saturn’s icy moon ...

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

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a ...

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

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

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

Cassini launched Oct. 15, 1997 on a long-term mission to Saturn and its moons. After a trio of gravity assists, two from Venus and one from Earth, Cassini went racing toward the outer solar system. It ...

Saturn also retrogrades once a year for about 4 to 4.5 months, moving backward and forward, which encourages us to use its ...