Few places in the solar system are better suited to a balloon than Titan. The combination of low gravity and high atmospheric ...

New research underscores the physics of potential oceans on moons like Europa and Enceladus where aliens could hide ...

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

In recent years, Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites in our solar system. How many moons does ...

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...

Researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to study Trappist-1 b, revealing it might have a volatile surface and ...

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only object in the Solar system other than Earth with liquids on its surface. Discovered ...

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 years, I received hundreds of suggestions. To the best of my knowledge, not ...

The surface shows no signs of weathering ... We see something similar happening on Saturn's moon Titan. Its haze layer most likely forms there under the influence of the sun's ultraviolet ...

Alternatively, the new measurements also reveal an unexpectedly high temperature for TRAPPIST-1b's surface ... known to occur on Saturn's largest moon Titan, for instance, but "the chemistry ...

NASA’s Dragonfly mission, due to launch in 2028, will deploy a rotorcraft lander to the surface of Titan, the second-largest moon in the solar system. Dragonfly is scheduled to arrive in 2034 ...

A planet with a hazy carbon dioxide atmosphere is also viable — perhaps similar to Saturn's giant moon Titan. Representation ... revealing details about its surface and atmosphere.