For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay ...

Scientists have found that on Titan, substances that should remain separate can actually combine under freezing conditions. NASA and Chalmers University researchers discovered that hydrogen cyanide ...

Titan’s harsh chemistry breaks basic rules, offering new clues about how life’s building blocks might form in space.

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay apart. But researchers from Chalmers University in Sweden and NASA’s Jet ...

The discovery that molecules of methane and ethane can worm their way into the crystal lattice of frozen hydrogen cyanide has ...

On Oct. 26, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft made its first close pass by Saturn's planet-size moon, Titan (later known as Titan ...

Researchers have long been interested in Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and its icy environment, which harbors lakes, seas, sand dunes and a thick atmosphere full of nitrogen, methane, and complex ...

In a discovery that could rewrite chemistry textbooks, scientists have found that Saturn’s largest moon Titan allows ...

Recent research challenges a basic principle of chemistry—that polar and nonpolar substances cannot spontaneously mix—by ...

A particular cornerstone of prebiotic chemistry is hydrogen cyanide, which, under the right conditions, forms compounds that ...