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Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of ...
Seven years ago, the Cassini mission ended when the spacecraft dramatically crashed into Saturn, but the data it collected is still delivering results, revealing the secrets of Titan's oceans.
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is one of the most fascinating celestial bodies in our solar system. In this video, we explore the groundbreaking discoveries made by NASA about this mysterious moon.
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...
A new study in the International Journal of Astrobiology explores the possibility that proto-cell structures called vesicles ...
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan.
Using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, scientists have found that Titan’s atmosphere doesn’t spin in sync with its surface. Instead, it wobbles like ...
Although NASA's Cassini mission ended in September, new findings are being released about what the spacecraft "learned" about Saturn and its moons during the final days.
Cassini launched on October 15, 1997, as Cassini-Huygens. Huygens, in this case, refers to the name of the probe's original attached lander. It entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which explored Saturn and its icy moons, including the majestic Titan, ended its mission with a death plunge into the giant ringed planet in 2017. But some of the ...
Cassini’s second close flyby of Titan completes a ‘before’ and ‘after’ look at the fuzzy moon and provides the first direct evidence of changing weather patterns in the skies over Titan.
Repeated flybys of Titan were envisioned, from the mission’s beginning, as a way to explore the mysterious planet-size moon and to fling Cassini toward its adventures in the Saturn system.