Press Release Life on Titan: stand well back and hold your nose! 11-Apr-2010, Plain html version. Royal Astronomical Society Press Release RAS PN 10/18 (NAM 03) Life on Titan: stand well back and hold your nose! Research by astrobiologist William Bains suggests that if life has evolved on the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan, it would be strange, smelly and explosive compared to life on Eart