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The James Webb Space Telescope just found the same unidentified molecule on both Titan and Pluto — two worlds with almost nothing in common — and scientists say they cannot yet match it to any known substance in any existing database - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:30:00 GMTCassini bounced radio waves off Titan’s three largest seas and found their open surfaces mirror-smooth, with roughness no greater than 3.3 millimetres RMS, while rougher estuaries hinted that methane-rich rivers were entering more ethane-rich seas - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:50:07 GMTIn 1980 NASA had to choose between sending Voyager 1 past Titan or keeping it on a course that could reach Pluto, and it picked Titan, ending the mission's planet-hopping for good — the flyby flung the probe out of the plane of the planets, and it never made - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:30:13 GMTA 2025 study tested whether impacts could keep Titan’s methane skies alive and found that a 20-kilometre object released up to 1% of the atmosphere’s methane directly, while even favourable impact histories extended its lifetime by no more than 3%, leaving - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:58:00 GMTNASA has approved one of its strangest missions yet: Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered drone the size of a car that will fly across Saturn's moon Titan, the one place beyond Earth with rain, rivers and seas, hunting for the chemistry that comes before life - Space DailySpace Daily · Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:37:35 GMTSaturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere thicker than Earth's and seas you could sail on, and it is the one place beyond Earth where a person could stand outside without a pressure suit, though its surface sits at about minus 179 degrees Celsius - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:13:12 GMTSaturn's moon Titan has rivers of liquid methane longer than the Nile's tributaries, but a 2025 Brown University study found that only 1.3% of those rivers form deltas — on Earth, nearly every river does, and nobody yet knows why Titan's don't - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:30:25 GMTHuygens took around 700 pictures on its way down through Titan in 2005, and we have half of them, because a single command was missing from Cassini's instructions — one of the two radio channels was never switched on, and roughly 350 images were los - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:30 GMT