This is a challenging mission for a number of reasons, beginning with getting down to the surface. Because Titan has a thick atmosphere, it will take about 90 minutes for the spacecraft to descend.

NASA’s Dragonfly mission has cleared several key design, development and testing milestones and remains on track toward ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

Might a nuclear-powered flying laboratory crack the code of how life began on a moon that is almost a billion miles away?

A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, ...

If there’s one of these planets that could potentially sustain liquid water on the surface, it’s probably that one.” ...

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long fascinated scientists with its spectacular water plumes, which NASA’s Cassini spacecraft once revealed to contain organic molecules. Many hoped these molecules ...

Jahnavi has been selected to travel to the Titan’s Orbital Port Space Station, a US-based project slated for inauguration in ...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is of like mind. Earlier this year, Musk said that the company aims to launch a small, ...

Scientists are steadily ruling out habitable conditions on the seven planets of the star Trappist-1. On one of the worlds, a ...

If we’ll ever find life outside our solar system, it will not be an instant discovery. Save for the slim possibility of an intelligent civilization beaming a message in our direction, evidence for ...