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 Titan atmosphere wobbles like a gyroscope revealing seasonal shifts London, 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 | |
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Webb Observations Reveal Active Methane Cycle and Atmospheric Dynamics on Titan Paris, 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 | |
 Webb Finds First Clear Evidence of Frozen Water in Young Star System Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 15, 2025  Astronomers have long theorized that frozen water exists in the debris disks surrounding young stars, but definitive evidence has remained elusive - until now. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ... more | |
 Sidus Space and Saturn partner to build low cost high performance GEO satellites Los 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 | |
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Super Earths Found Abundant in Distant Orbits Across the Galaxy Los 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 | |
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Scientists investigate absence of sediment deltas on Titan Los 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 | |
 A little bit of space on Earth Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2025  There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar envelopes, or galactic gas clouds. One great challenge in astrochemistry is to u ... more | |
 On Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2025  Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed "mushballs," raining down like hailstones during a thundersto ... more | |
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Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount, study finds Tucson 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 system Baltimore 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 | |
 MSU scientists discover new sources for 'the molecule that made the universe' East Lansing MI (SPX) Feb 18, 2025  From helping catalyze interstellar reactions and fueling the birth of stars to its presence in neighborhood gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter, trihydrogen, or H3+, is best known as the "the molecul ... more | |
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Tidal energy data aids SwRI scientists in unraveling Titan's composition and orbital shifts Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2025  Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are examining Saturn's largest moon, Titan, to determine its tidal dissipation rate-the energy lost as it interacts with Saturn's immense gravitati ... more | |
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IGRINS on Gemini South Detects Surprising Signatures in Dynamic Atmosphere of Exoplanet WASP-121b Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 04, 2025  Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our Solar System developed with gas giants far from our Sun, some planetary systems consist of ... more | |
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Berkeley Lab helps explore mysteries of Asteroid Bennu Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025  During the past year, there's been an unusual set of samples at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab): material gathered from the 4.5-billion-year-old aster ... more | |
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SwRI experiments validate theories about Titan's atmospheric sustainability Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Carnegie Institution for Science have conducted advanced laboratory experiments to explore the mechanisms that allow Saturn's moon Titan to maintain its d ... more | |
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National Astronomy Week illuminates February with rare planet parade London, UK (SPX) Jan 24, 2025  A rare celestial display featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will dazzle stargazers during National Astronomy Week 2025, which runs from February 1-9. Complementing the planet parade, the Moo ... more | |
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Webb offers best glimpse ever into the icy planetesimals of the early solar system Orlando FL (SPX) Dec 20, 2024  New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian o ... more | |
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NASA marks ten years of Hubble's Outer Planets Survey Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2024  In 1989, NASA's Voyager mission made history by capturing humanity's first close-up glimpse of Neptune, completing its exploration of the solar system's four giant outer planets. Since their 1977 la ... more | |
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New planet in Kepler-51 system unveiled with JWST observations Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2024  Astronomers have identified a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system, a discovery led by researchers at Penn State and Osaka University using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The s ... more | |
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Towards independent robotic exploration of ocean worlds Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2024  NASA is advancing autonomous exploration to tackle one of its foremost goals - investigating the potential for life and habitability on ocean worlds. These missions focus on targets like Jupiter's E ... more | |
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NASA selects SpaceX for Dragonfly mission to Titan Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2024  NASA has officially awarded SpaceX the contract to provide launch services for its highly anticipated Dragonfly mission, part of the New Frontiers Program. This innovative mission will send a rotorc ... more | |
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Saturn's moon Titan may have thick insulating methane ice crust up to six miles Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2024  Saturn's largest moon, Titan, stands out as the only celestial body besides Earth with a dense atmosphere and surface liquids, such as rivers, lakes, and seas. Due to its frigid environment, these l ... more | |
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Does a Volcanic Moon Orbit a Distant Exoplanet Like Jupiter's Io? Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2024  While moons beyond our solar system have yet to be directly confirmed, a NASA-led study may offer indirect evidence suggesting the presence of a volcanic moon orbiting a distant planet 635 light-yea ... more | |
 NASA image Earth's radiation belts during Juice mission flyby Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 08, 2024  From Aug. 19-20, ESA's (European Space Agency's) Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission achieved a milestone during a lunar-Earth flyby, executing a double gravity assist maneuver. As the spacec ... more | |
 An interstellar instrument takes a final bow Boston MA (SPX) Oct 03, 2024  They planned to fly for four years and to get as far as Jupiter and Saturn. But nearly half a century and 15 billion miles later, NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft have far exceeded their original miss ... more | |
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