8 Years from Now, NASA Will Send a Nuclear-Powered Helicopter Into Titan’s Atmosphere Where It Rains Methane
Roughly in December 2034, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will send a nuclear-powered rotorcraft to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, creating…
APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six Moons of Saturn
APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six Moons of Saturn Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
Aug. 12 to feature a 6-planet parade, solar eclipse, meteor shower and new moon
The most recent fireball that lit up the night sky across several states in the U.S. was captured…
Two scientists are planning to venture into one of the most dangerous environments in the solar system and touch it. NASA thinks the plan could work |
For centuries, space has fascinated humans like no other. From the sun’s glare to the moon’s surface and…
In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.
The upcoming Dragonfly mission is unlike any planetary mission NASA has ever attempted. Instead of another slow-moving rover,…
Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan
A look at the dwarf planet Pluto and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, baffled astronomers after the James Webb…
In September 2017, after 20 years in space, NASA deliberately flew the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn and let it burn up like a meteor — not because it had failed, but because it had found a possibly habitable ocean on the moon Enceladus that a dead spacecraft could one day contaminate.
In September 2017, after twenty years in space and thirteen years orbiting Saturn, NASA pointed the Cassini spacecraft…
Don’t miss it: May ends with these rare celestial events
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy joins FOX Weather to showcase some of the iconic photos from the historic Artemis II…
From Greenbelt to Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission to seek answers on how life begins
NASA’s Dragonfly is a flying spacecraft that will be sent to Saturn’s moon Titan and is designed to…
A planet that tricks physics? Webb reveals the secret behind Saturn’s strange rotation
For decades, Saturn has been playing a strange trick on scientists. Depending on how they measure it, the…