Titan
Forecast for Titan: Cold, with a Chance of Noxious Ice Clouds
One of the many interesting finds made by the Cassini orbiter before it crashed into Saturn was evidence of a…
Weekly Space Hangout – Oct 18, 2017: Weekly News Roundup
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
Scientists Find Evidence of Extreme Methane Storms On Titan
A recent study by UCLA scientists has shown a link between extreme rainstorms on Titan and surface features detected by…
Ancient Hydrothermal Vents Found on Mars, Could Have Been a Cradle for Life
A new report by an international team of scientists has found evidence of hydrothermal activity in an ancient Mars sea,…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 458: The Science of Cassini
And now Cassini’s gone. Smashed up in the atmosphere of Saturn. But planetary scientists are going to be picking through…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 457: Why Did Cassini Have To Die? In Memoriam
It’s time to say goodbye to an old friend, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting within the Saturnian system…
Cassini Conducts a Final Flyby of Titan Before Crashing into Saturn
Before it makes its final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, the Cassini spacecraft made one last flyby of 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…
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…
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…