NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. Taking advantage Venus's gravity, Cassini gained ...

Southwest Research Institute has delivered the novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument for final ...

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This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

After two decades in space, NASA’s Cassini mission ended with a dramatic plunge into Saturn – but not before sending back ...

Typically, solar heat or a planet’s gravity influences atmospheric behaviour. Scientists expected Titan’s tilt to shift over ...