The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Saturn’s largest moon Titan is the only place other than Earth known to have an atmosphere and liquids in the form of rivers, ...

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However, there are a few other notable celestial sights to see — not least the possibility of a view of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, an occultation (eclipse) of Saturn and a view of the moon close ...

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO 14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn. The team has posted a paper describing their study of the ...

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan asteroids, are already known for the other three giant planets.

This program is useful for visualizing approximations of energy band diagrams, and performing back-of-the-envelope calculations of their important parameters. Energy bands can be modeled at varying ...