Saturn’s system is mainly shaped by Titan, its largest moon, which is moving outward rapidly due to tidal forces within Saturn. A new study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk suggests that ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born in a colossal cosmic crash. New research suggests Titan formed when two older moons slammed together hundreds of millions of years ago—an event so ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, may have been even more instrumental to the system’s evolution than we thought, forming ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.

The European Space Agency recalls the historic landing on the Saturn moon and the mission that made it possible. Credit: ESA ...

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

Under this new model, Titan itself is the result of a collision between two earlier moons: a large body called “Proto-Titan,” ...

After Titan's violent birth, its new orbit destabilized smaller moons. Resonant tugs drove collisions among Saturn's inner satellites. Most fragments would recombine into moons, but ice debris ...

A massive upheaval in the Saturnian system could have also led to the moon Hyperion.

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born of the collision of two smaller moons, according to new research.

This hypothesis has the advantage of explaining why the rings have a lot of ice and little rock, in contrast to models where ...