I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

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Earth as seen by the radar instrument on NASA's Cassini Saturn probe. In order to understand what landforms on Titan could be ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Scientists apply that same logic to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon ... should preserve so much of Titan’s history,” Birch said. Back in 2006, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft gave scientists their first clear ...

Enceladus, another of Saturn’s moons, is much smaller but easier to study. During the Cassini mission, plumes of water vapor were seen spraying from Enceladus' surface, offering direct samples ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampart-like features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...