While a hexagon seems like an odd shape for a naturally occurring storm, physicists were able to recreate the phenomenon in a ...
The only spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn, Cassini showed us the planet, its rings and moons up close in all their glory.
Dr Sarah Alam Malik suggests Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon Europa, may host conditions suitable for life, challenging traditional views of the 'Goldilocks zone'.
For more than 40 years, planetary scientists believed they knew how long a day on Saturn lasted. They were listening to the ...
Titan is a puzzle wrapped in mystery. Well, actually, it's wrapped in a dense atmosphere, but nonetheless, Titan's surface is a riddle only now beginning to be understood, thanks to a lot of new data ...
Is Mars the end of the line or is it a steppingstone to somewhere else? If we “moon-to-Mars,” do we then “Mars-to-somewhere else?” These are curious questions that have received very little attention ...
Neptune’s third-largest moon, Nereid, could be an intact survivor from the planet’s original satellite system, upending ...
How can electromagnetic (EM) sounding be used to study Enceladus’ subsurface ocean? This is what a recent study published in ...
Something written in every biology textbook of the past 70 years may need a rewrite. Not because the science was careless, or ...