Titan
Dragonfly Mission has Some Ambitious Science Goals to Accomplish When it Arrives at Titan
As any good project manager will tell you, goals are necessary to complete any successful project. The more audacious the…
A Titan Mission Could Refuel on Site and Return a Sample to Earth
As part of the 2021 NAIC proposals, NASA is investigating a concept for a sample-return mission to Titan that would…
Titan’s Atmosphere Recreated in an Earth Laboratory
A recent study led by IBM-Zurich has recreated what goes on in Titan's atmosphere, which could help scientists find evidence…
Saturn Got Its Tilt From Its Moons
One of the fundamental tenets of physics is that two objects, now matter how different their size, exert a force…
Titan’s Atmosphere Has All the Ingredients For Life. But Not Life as We Know It
In a series of new studies on Saturn's moon Titan, researchers have found more indications that there could be exotic…
Impatient? A Spacecraft Could Get to Titan in Only 2 Years Using a Direct Fusion Drive
Fusion power is the technology that is thirty years away, and always will be - according to skeptics at least. …
Lakes On Titan Will Have Layers, Like Lakes On Earth, But for a Completely Different Reason
Lakes on Earth are a common sight in many locales. They’re central to the recreation and livelihood of millions of…
Sunrises Across the Solar System
Scientists have learned a lot about the atmospheres on various worlds in our Solar System simply from planetary sunrises or…
Can you tell the difference between California, Venus, Titan and Mars? Hint: California is the one with buildings.
Californians woke up to an alien-looking sky this morning, Wednesday, September 9, 2020. (more…)
A Simulation of Sunsets on Other Worlds: From Venus to Titan
A new tool from NASA Goddard allows us to witness what a sunset would look like on other bodies in…