Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d nicknamed ...

Credit: Gianluca Masi/The Virtual Telescope Project While the pair could be seen in the night sky by the unaided eye, ...

There is no surface below. Saturn's made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium gas, which is why it's called a gas giant. 4,000 kilometers above the surface, we hit Saturn's upper atmosphere.

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

Venus and Saturn have been getting closer (from our ... from east to west on that same imaginary track. From the Earth's surface, the planets always appear somewhere along that line, the same ...

Oct. 25, 2024 — A new study has revealed that methane gas may be trapped within the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan, forming a distinct crust up to six miles thick, which warms the underlying ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon.

Cassini first discovered evidence of a vast ocean on Enceladus by spotting plumes of water vapor jutting out of Enceladus' surface ... Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus.

While the pair could be seen in the night sky by the unaided eye, binoculars or a telescope would have allowed viewers to see details of the lunar surface, as well as Saturn's rings and moons.