In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

Titan is the only moon in the solar system with stable rivers, lakes, and seas on its surface — except they’re made of liquid ...

Eight distant worlds hold secrets that still puzzle scientists and spark endless curiosity. Each moon offers a strange allure ...

Saturn stunned skywatchers on 23 November when its iconic rings seemed to vanish, leaving the planet looking strangely bare. Astronomers confirmed not ...

Io, moon of Jespiter Jupiter, is famously volcanically active. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, over an area the size of Asia. Some of the volcanic mountains are taller than Mount Everest.

When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured sunlight glinting off Titan’s dark lakes, scientists realized they were seeing waves — the first evidence of movement on another world’s liquid surface. The ...

We have been exploring our solar system for over 80s years now, and we have learned so much. This week, we examine a Voyager 2 image of Triton, a Cassini image of Saturn with its moons, a panoramic ...

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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is often described as one of the most Earth-like places in the solar system. It features vast river networks, expansive lakes, and a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere. But ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study to assess the characteristics of particles or bubbles possibly present on Titan’s lakes and seas using Cassini RADAR observations when operating in ...

This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn’s moon Titan from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission’s “T-114” flyby on November 13, 2015. New research on Titan’s seas using ...