James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M. Keck Observatory/Judy Schmidt | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick ...

Dragonfly is an eight-rotor, nuclear-powered dual-quadcopter (octocopter) reminiscent of advanced drones but customized for ...

NASA has announced that a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA's Dragonfly, a car-sized octocopter drone that will explore Saturn's moon Titan, the most unusual moon in our solar system.

NASA has given SpaceX the contract to launch the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan. A Falcon Heavy will send the rotorcraft and its lander on their way to Titan in 2028, if all goes ...

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

Oct. 25, 2024 — A new study has revealed that methane gas may be trapped within the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan, forming a distinct crust up to six miles thick, which warms the underlying ...

Recently, NASA selected the SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch the Dragonfly aerial probe to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The selection constitutes another win for Elon Musk’s launch company.

Credit: Galileo Galilei Saturn is one of the five classical planets visible to the unaided eye. Astronomers of ancient Greece named it for the titan Kronos. The Romans called it "the star of ...

The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently ...

The mission is aimed at identifying the habitability of Titan's environment and searching for chemical indications of whether water-based or hydrocarbon-based life once existed on Saturn's moon ...

NASA has chosen SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket for the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. Scheduled for 2028, this $3.35 billion project will send a nuclear-powered octocopter to explore ...