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Saturn’s moon Titan has rain, rivers, seas, dunes, and seasons just like Earth, but at 290 degrees below zero the rain is liquid methane, the rivers carve ice, and the mountains are water frozen harder than granite — and in 2028 NASA sends a drone to see if it hides life.

Saturn's moon Titan looks uncannily like Earth: clouds, rain, rivers, lakes, seas, coastlines, dunes, and seasons. Then you learn the rain is liquid methane,...

Harrison KassJuly 27, 2026

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In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.

NASA is about to try something it has never attempted: instead of another six-wheeled rover, it will fly a car-sized, plutonium-powered drone across the...

Harrison KassJuly 24, 2026

Space and Technology

In January 2005 a European probe named Huygens fell for two and a half hours through the orange haze of Titan and landed on a plain of ice — the most distant touchdown in history, and no spacecraft has ever gone back.

Most probes orbit worlds or fly past them. In January 2005, Europe's Huygens did something far rarer: it landed. Carried across the solar system...

Harrison KassJuly 7, 2026

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In 2005 a European probe named Huygens made the most distant landing in history, settling onto a frozen, methane-carved plain on Saturn’s moon Titan — and then lost half of everything it saw, because the command to switch on its backup radio channel was never loaded, and no one was listening.

Humanity has landed in the outer solar system exactly once: on Saturn's moon Titan, in January 2005, when a European probe named Huygens parachuted...

Harry J. KazianisJune 23, 2026

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Saturn’s moon Titan has rain, rivers, seas, dunes, and seasons just like Earth, but at 290 degrees below zero the rain is liquid methane, the rivers carve ice, and the mountains are water frozen harder than granite — and in 2028 NASA sends a drone to see if it hides life.

Space and Technology

In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.

Space and Technology

In January 2005 a European probe named Huygens fell for two and a half hours through the orange haze of Titan and landed on a plain of ice — the most distant touchdown in history, and no spacecraft has ever gone back.

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In 2005 a European probe named Huygens made the most distant landing in history, settling onto a frozen, methane-carved plain on Saturn’s moon Titan — and then lost half of everything it saw, because the command to switch on its backup radio channel was never loaded, and no one was listening.

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