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 ...

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...

Under this new model, Titan itself is the result of a collision between two earlier moons: a large body called “Proto-Titan,” nearly as massive as modern Titan, and a smaller companion dubbed ...

A study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk proposes that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. This study was accepted for ...

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.

Scientists suggest Titan formed from a giant moon collision that also may explain Saturn’s rings and strange moon orbits.

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Abstract: We investigated the surface geophysical properties of Titan through a multi-angular backscattering analysis of Cassini Ku-band radar data acquired in altimetry, SAR, scatterometry and ...