‘Smiley face’ moon won’t happen, but see Christmas Tree Cluster
If you’ve seen posts claiming a celestial “smiley face” will light up the night sky over Christmas, don’t…
NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean
A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a…
How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…
Voyager 1 will be one light-day, 16 billion miles, from us next year
It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as…
Saturn’s Rings Are Ghosting Us This Weekend
Stargazers with backyard telescopes may notice something amiss in the night sky this weekend as a rare planetary…
NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus
Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast…
Strange object between Saturn and Uranus is ‘evolving’ its own ring system, study suggests
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Cassini’s Photos Revealed of Saturn’s Moon Titan as a World Like No Other
For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system.…
More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life
A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never been…
“Very Strange” – Saturn’s Moon Titan Is Behaving Unusually
Purple haze around Titan – A false-color image of Titan captured in 2004 by the Cassini spacecraft. The…
A Cosmic Accident Just Exposed the Hidden Chemistry of Giant Planets
This artist’s concept shows a brown dwarf — an object larger than a planet but not massive enough…