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Elizabeth Howell

Saturn's largest moon may be riddled with 'slushy tunnels' that contain alien life, new study hints

Six infrared images of Titan.

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be hiding a habitable world of slushy sea ice, new research hints.

Back in 2008, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gathered data on Titan that suggested an open ocean might lurk beneath the moon's frozen crust. But the new analysis hints that what lies underneath is instead "slushy tunnels and pockets of meltwater," according to the investigators.

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