Titan

Dragonfly Proposed to NASA as Daring New Frontiers Mission to Titan

The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab recently submitted a proposal to NASA for a robotic mission to Titan known…

7 years ago

NASA Detects More Chemicals on Titan that are Essential to Life

A recent study by a team of NASA researchers had detected that a chemical thought to be essential to life…

7 years ago

Cassini Finds that Titan is Building the Chemicals that Might Have Led to Life on Earth

A new study by an international team of scientists shows how Titan's atmosphere could contain a key building block for…

7 years ago

Titan’s Lakes are Nice and Calm. The Perfect Spot for a Landing

A recent study has shown that Titan's methane lakes experience very low waves, which could make it an ideal landing…

7 years ago

Titan Ripe For Drone Invasion

Elizabeth Turtle , a researcher at NASA's JHUAPL, reveals the latest details of "the Dragonfly" - a proposal for an…

8 years ago

Earth Beams From Between Saturn’s Rings in New Cassini Image

Cassini took this rare photo of the Earth and moon on April 12 just before the start of its daring…

8 years ago

The Bubbly Streams Of Titan

Titan's so-called "magic islands" are not islands at all, but nitrogen bubbles, according to researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

8 years ago

Exploring Titan with Aerial Platforms

At NASA's Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop, presenters showed various concepts for exploring Saturn's moon Titan with aerial platforms.

8 years ago

Exploring Titan with Balloons and Landers

At last week's Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop, scientists presented a concept for exploring Titan with balloons and landers.

8 years ago

The Incredible Story of How the Huygens Mission to Titan Succeeded When It Could Have Failed

Twelve years ago today, the Huygens probe landed on Titan, marking the farthest point from Earth any spacecraft has ever…

8 years ago