What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...

Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature ...

With future space missions planned to various moons such as Europa and Ganymede, two moons of Jupiter ... Friction in a satellite’s interior causes it to slowly progress toward a circular ...

Titan, the second-largest moon in our solar system after Jupiter’s Ganymede, has a denser atmosphere ... are heated up in Titan’s rocky interior. These would then release nitrogen and methane ...