Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...
Recent media coverage highlights the wide range of research, education, and scientific perspectives emerging from the SETI ...
NASA's Dragonfly mission will revolutionize planetary exploration by deploying a rotorcraft lander to Titan, Saturn's largest ...
The zodiacal light – so called because it appears within the same belt of constellations as the zodiac signs (and is a light) – looks like a huge ghostly pyramid in the sky, its vertical axis tilted ...
New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.
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March 6, 1953: The birth of Carolyn Porco
In the early 1980s, Carolyn Porco was completing her doctorate in earth and space sciences when she joined the Voyager team as an imaging scientist. As part of that mission, she collaborated with Carl ...
A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s ...
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