Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...
Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...
Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...
But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...
Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just ...
Narrator: In 2017, NASA's Cassini probe sent us our closest view of Saturn as it dove into the planet's stormy atmosphere. And the results were stunning. But what would it be like if humans made ...
falling toward Saturn, where they burn up in the atmosphere. Now, we’ve known about ring rain since the 1980s when NASA’s Voyager mission first noticed mysterious, dark bands that turned out ...
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere which is comprised of thick hazes of 95 percent nitrogen ( | Space ...
Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.
SwRI is studying how Saturn’s largest moon maintains its thick atmosphere. Scientists think Titan’s core is covered by several layers of ice and a subsurface liquid ocean. New experiments indicate ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere, and the most Earth-like place we know of. It has rain, lakes, and oceans ...
Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...