Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Saturn's rings are almost as wide as the distance between the Earth and the moon, so at first glance, they seem like an easy place to land and explore on foot. Except there's one problem.

On Saturn’s moon Titan, life might be tiny, reclusive, and hard to find This could be bad news for NASA's Dragonfly mission. 04/09/2025 ...

People were of course quick to mock the idea, but let's go through the reasons why we aren't sending humans to their deaths on a mission to Saturn. Reason number one: The planet is a type of ...

Saturn's moon Titan (orange, in background) ... But should that mission, the fate of which will soon be decided by NASA, land on a tropical lake instead? No, says Lunine.

I f there were such a thing as moon envy, Titan would probably have it bad. It wasn’t long ago that Saturn’s biggest satellite was making one headline after another.Lately, though, most of the ...

Scientists know that the vital ingredients needed for life lurk in oceans beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and they may be closer to the surface than we knew.

Never has a spacecraft attempted to land so far from Earth. The European Space Agency's camera-toting Huygens probe will plunge into the dense atmosphere of Titan early Friday, then slowly ...

The first Saturn V to launch with a crew was Apollo 8, which set off in December of 1968. In July of 1969, a Saturn V launched the crew of Apollo 11 to the first crewed landing on the moon.

NASA's mission to Saturn's moon, Titan, ... Dragonfly is scheduled to launch in 2028. It will land in equatorial Titan, home to expansive dunes, in the mid-2030s.

The ninth Saturn V lifts off in January 1971 to start the Apollo 14 mission. The first people to ride the mighty booster were the Apollo 8 crew in December 1968. Recalled Bill Anders, “It felt ...