Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...

Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain ... "Walking on the surface of Titan would feel a bit like scuba diving." ...

Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its historic parachute descent onto Titan's surface ... across the moon's surface not long ago.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments that recreate the conditions of Saturn’s moon Titan in a tiny vial. The ...

“Now four weeks into the mission, Blue Ghost has downlinked more than 15 GB of data, including NASA science data, from record-breaking GNSS signals to magnetic field measurements, that is already ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Wednesday launched two lunar landers to the Moon as it gears up to land humans back on the surface of the Moon in the future. The Blue Ghost lander was deployed into a lunar ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

In particular, some researchers are worried about Tranquillity Base, the Apollo 11 landing site where the astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the moon’s surface. Protections for cultural ...

The Blue Ghost lander will carry 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the lunar surface to further understand the Moon and help prepare for future human missions. NASA/Frank Michaux A ...

Two moon landers, one from Japan’s ispace and the other from US-based Firefly Aerospace, have begun their historic journeys to the lunar surface following SpaceX’s unique double moonshot ...

The $93-billion plan to put astronauts back on the Moon NASA paid Firefly US$101 million to fly ten payloads to the lunar surface. Among them is a ‘PlanetVac’ designed to hoover up lunar soil ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...