New research reveals many Marsquakes come from meteoroid impacts, not tectonic activity. This discovery reshapes theories ...

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...

What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science ...

This will allow the swap between Crew-9 and Crew-10 to happen sooner while SpaceX continues to finalize the interior and ...

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

Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a ...

where it forms a thick atmosphere around the moon. This theory is corroborated by the recent experiments that heated organic materials to temperatures of 250 to 500 Celsius at pressures up to 10 ...

Diagram depicting Titan's interior and how the moon's atmosphere is replenished. (Credit: Southwest Research Institute) This study comes as NASA is slated to launch the Dragonfly mission in 2028, ...

Titan, the second-largest moon in our solar system after Jupiter ... that organic materials are heated up in Titan’s rocky interior. These would then release nitrogen and methane, which ...