China's space agency has opened up a first round of applications for researchers to borrow its Chang'e 6 lunar far side ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

NASA is planning to send a drone to a nearby moon that will hunt for alien life. The Dragonfly probe will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – around 745 million miles from Earth. That ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

A six-mile-thick crust of methane trapped in water ice could explain many of the saturnian moon's weird properties ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1, currently over 15 billion miles from Earth in interstellar space, reestablished contact after ...

A new study, led by planetary scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, revealed that methane gas may also be trapped ...

Research on Titan has uncovered a significant layer of methane clathrate ice that explains its shallow craters and warm interior. This discovery offers new insights into Titan's methane-rich ...