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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is moving through a busy stretch of hardware assembly and testing at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, with the primary structure now taking shape and key subsystems under active development at multiple sites. The fuselage panels that form Dragonfly's body were recently delivered to APL, where engineers began assembling the structure in early April. Designed at APL and manufactured by Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, the panels use ... read more |
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Ocean Wave Mechanics Across the Solar System and BeyondLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 On a calm day, a light breeze might barely ripple the surface of a lake on Earth. But on Saturn's largest moon Titan, a similar mild wind would kick up 10-foot-tall waves. That otherworldly behavior ... more 
Titan may have formed in a giant impact between ancient Saturn moonsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 Recent modeling work suggests that Saturns largest moon, Titan, may be the product of a violent collision between two earlier moons rather than a relic left over from the systems formation. In this ... more 
Enceladus waves shape Saturn space weatherParis, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, generates electromagnetic ripples that stretch more than half a million kilometers through the giant planet's space environment. A new analysis of data from NA ... more 
Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets' interior detailsBoston MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospher ... more |
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Titan interior study points to thick slushy ice shell instead of global oceanLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Careful reanalysis of measurements gathered more than a decade ago indicates that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, likely lacks a vast liquid-water ocean beneath its ice, contrary to earlier interpreta ... more  
NASA backs WHOI effort to read organic signals from ocean worldsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Ocean worlds such as Jupiter's icy moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus are emerging as prime locations to search for life beyond Earth, potentially including a second, independent origin of life ... more 
Looking inside icy moonsDavis, CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2025 The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky c ... more 
Cassini study reveals organic compounds from Enceladus ocean plumeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2025 Scientists analyzing NASA Cassini data have identified previously unknown organic compounds in ice particles emitted from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Evidence suggests these molecules originated from t ... more |
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Saturn moon mission planning shifts to flower constellation theoryTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2025 Researchers have developed a satellite constellation approach designed for exploration around Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The framework, known as the 2D Necklace Flower Constellation, prioritizes ... more 
Saturn's icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life, study findsOxford, UK (SPX) Nov 08, 2025 New findings from NASA's Cassini mission show that Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons and a top contender for extra-terrestrial life, is losing heat from both poles - indicating that it has the long-t ... more 
Unexpected discovery on Saturn's moon challenges our view on chemistry before life emergedGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery that challenges one of the basic rules of chemistry and provides new knowled ... more 
Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus oceanParis (ESA) Oct 06, 2025 Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus. This is a clear sign that complex chemical reaction ... more |
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 Detection of phosphine in a brown dwarf atmosphere raises more questions 
Out-of-this-world ice geysers on Saturn's EnceladusAustin TX (SPX) Oct 01, 2025 In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, bu ... more 
Saturn's hidden structures unveiled by James Webb Space TelescopeLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 A study using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered striking new details in Saturn's upper atmosphere, revealing features unlike anything previously observed in the Solar System. The r ... more |
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NASA Study: Celestial 'Accident' Sheds Light on Jupiter, Saturn RiddlePasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2025 An unusual cosmic object is helping scientists better understand the chemistry hidden deep in Jupiter and Saturn's atmospheres - and potentially those of exoplanets. Why has silicon, one of the most ... more
NASA Dragonfly Mission Advances Through Crucial Development and Testing StagesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025 NASA's Dragonfly mission has successfully cleared several major design, development, and testing milestones, keeping it on track for launch in July 2028. Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered, car-size ... more
Radiation may explain organic molecules in Enceladus plumesParis, France (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 Organic molecules discovered in the geyser-like plumes erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus may form when surface ices are exposed to radiation, rather than originating in its hidden subsurface oce ... more  
China's JD.com set to acquire German electronics giantFrankfurt, Germany (AFP) July 31, 2025 Chinese e-commerce group JD.com looks set to acquire a German electronics retail giant, both sides said, in a 2.2-billion euro deal that would boost the Chinese group's presence in Europe. ... more 
China's JD.com eyes takeover of German electronics giantsFrankfurt, Germany (AFP) July 24, 2025 Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com is in talks to take over two German electronics retailers, their owner said Thursday, in a 2.2-billion-euro ($2.59 billion) deal that would boost the Chinese group's presence in Europe. ... more |
 NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan 
Titan atmosphere wobbles like a gyroscope revealing seasonal shiftsLondon, UK (SPX) May 26, 2025 The unusual motion of Titan's atmosphere has been uncovered by scientists at the University of Bristol using data from NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission. Their research shows that Saturn's largest moon ... more
Webb Observations Reveal Active Methane Cycle and Atmospheric Dynamics on TitanParis, France (SPX) May 15, 2025 A team of researchers has used data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Keck II telescope to observe cloud convection on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in its northern hemisphere for t ... more |
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Sidus Space and Saturn partner to build low cost high performance GEO satellitesLos Angeles CA (SPX) May 01, 2025 Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), a provider of agile space mission support services, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Saturn Satellite Networks, Inc., a leader in GEO satellite systems ... more 
Super Earths Found Abundant in Distant Orbits Across the GalaxyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2025 An international collaboration, including researchers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), has reported the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting ... more
Scientists investigate absence of sediment deltas on TitanLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2025 NASA's Mars missions have shown that sediment-rich deltas offer valuable insights into a planet's climate and geologic past. Yet on Saturn's moon Titan, where vast rivers of methane and ethane flow, ... more 
Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount, study findsTucson AZ (SPX) Apr 10, 2025 Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like 'sand,' its topography has long fascinated scientists and ... more  
Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar systemBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 18, 2025 The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ... more |
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