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Potential ingredient for alien life found on Titan

Vinyl cyanide on the Saturnian moon could form millions of cell-like balls in methane oceans

Titan

TOUGH INGREDIENTS Saturn’s moon Titan is frigid and lacks water, but it appears to hold one building block for a proposed alternative form of life.

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By Tina Hesman Saey

- More than 2 years ago

A molecule that could help build otherworldly life is present on Saturn’s moon Titan, researchers have discovered.