While all the ingredients are there, the moon's composition likely prevents them from coming together in any meaningful way.

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Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

A breathtaking image of Saturn has gone viral, racking up millions of views on social media. It's claimed to be the final ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Life-supporting energy and nutrients on Titan could come from its surface and core. Organic matter from Titan's atmosphere ...

Titan may seem like a prime candidate for alien life with its organic-rich surface and deep subsurface ocean, but new ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

There is poetry in the fact that when the Cassini spacecraft burns up in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, ending its mission, the bus-sized spacecraft will become a part of the planet it has admired ...

Many other spacecraft, including most of the Mariner probes, Pioneers 10 and 11, GOES, Europa Clipper, Cassini, and Juno — to name just a few — have carried one or more magnetometers into the ...