Since 2014, mysterious craters have started appearing in the northwestern part of Siberia. New holes in the ground are ...

The icy shell of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, may possibly contain a six-mile-thick layer of methane ice beneath its surface ...

Scientists believe Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could be one of humanity's best bets to find some form of extraterrestrial ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer of methane clathrate, which is solid water ice with methane gas trapped in ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer of methane clathrate, which is solid water ice with methane gas ...

The researchers propose that methane gas might be trapped beneath its thick ice crust, raising intriguing possibilities about the moon's potential to support life. This research not only ...

In research published Sept. 30 in The Planetary Science Journal, a University of Hawaii-led team modeled the potential for methane clathrate (a kind of methane-infused water ice) in the crust of ...

This crust could warm the ice shell beneath. Proposed diagram of Titan’s interior (not to scale), showing a methane clathrate crust over a convecting ice shell. Credit: SOEST A study by planetary ...

Specifically, the team wanted to gauge the possibility that the moon’s icy exterior was insulated by methane clathrate ice, a type of ice that traps methane gas within its crystal structure. In the ...

Proposed diagram of Titan’s interior (not to scale), showing a methane clathrate crust over a convecting ice shell. Credit: SOEST To explore what lies beneath Titan’s surface, researchers used ...

PC: UH Mānoa Researchers tested in a computer model how the topography of Titan might relax or rebound after an impact if the ice shell was covered with a layer of insulating methane clathrate ...