'Strange Life' on Titan? New Organic Molecule Discovery Could Mean It's Possible

By Paul Scott Anderson, on August 1st, 2017

Titan, as seen in radar images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, is a complex world with methane/ethane rain, rivers, lakes and seas. Could it support life of some kind? Image Credit: NASA/JPL

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is a bizarre place with a thick and hazy nitrogen atmosphere, vast hydrocarbon dunes and methane/ethane rain, rivers, […]

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'Life Not As We Know It': New Research Shows How Exotic Biology May Be Possible on Titan

By Paul Scott Anderson, on March 4th, 2015

Illustration of methane rainfall and lake on Titan. New research suggests exotic forms of life could be possible in this alien environment. Image Credit: Mark Garlick (Space-art.co.uk)/APOD

The search for life elsewhere has long focused on what we are most familiar with on Earth—in other words, “life as we know it,” or organisms […]

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