Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its ...

The probe's descent from its parent spacecraft, NASA's Cassini, took approximately 2.5 hours. When Huygens landed with a thud near the bright equatorial region of Adiri, it made history as the ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich ...

Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just 40% the diameter of the Earth, Titan has an atmosphere 1.5 times as dense ...

The Jesuit priest Eustachius de Divinis, in 1647, and Riccioli, in 1648, made a close approximation to the real form of the planet, but the mathematically-trained Huygens, in 1655, first described ...

She is achieving this by using CAPS-ELS data collated during the Cassini-Huygens mission and is supervised by a large multi-disciplinary team of renowned researchers across multiple esteemed ...

Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades earlier, with the previous limited, rapid "fly-by" Pioneer and Voyager missions. Cassini-Huygens ...

Inventions by African Americans into the 21st century include everything from toys to physics to aerospace technology.

I recently noticed something odd about Saturn while admiring it near brilliant Venus in the southwestern night sky. Any object close to our evil twin sister planet will look somewhat dull in ...