28 June 2019
NASA drone to search for signs of early life on Titan
...will send a quadcopter to search for the building blocks of life on Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan is no ordinary moon; not only is this... miles and miles across the organic sand dunes of Saturn’s largest moon, exploring the processes that shape this ...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
... found in the high observable layers on both Jupiter and Saturn. Its presence on these two massive gas giants has been...generally only found in extreme environments like those of Jupiter and Saturn. So, for temperate, rocky worlds like Earth, “it is ...
07 July 2021
Methane detected on Enceladus could be a sign of life, study shows
... before NASA’s Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, planetary scientists had already earmarked Enceladus ... which has a mass about 680 times less than Earth’s Moon, orbits Saturn at a distance of 238,000 kilometres (148,000 miles) between the orbits...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
... other information, the team estimate the exoplanet candidate is roughly the size of Saturn, and it orbits its larger companion at about twice the distance of Saturn from the Sun. As tantalising as Di Stefano and team’s result is, they cannot...
24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
...and 17 new multi-planet systems, including one with two Saturn-sized gas giant planets located unusually close to one another....giants. It’s interesting because it’s rare to find gas giants like Saturn in our own solar system, as close to their host ...
29 April 2018
Mission to Methone
... the similar ‘Perry Rhodan’ series as an inspiration. Mission to Methone (described as “a tiny egg-shaped moon of the planet Saturn”) is set in 2065 and has a space scientist as its ‘hero’. He discovers that one of the asteroids he’s surveying for...
