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Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets' interior details Boston MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospheric whirlpools that rotate over a planet's polar region. On Saturn, a single massive polar vortex appears to cap the north pole in a curiously hexagonal shape, while on Jupiter, a central polar vortex is surrounded by eight smaller vortices, like a pan of swirling cinnamon rolls. Given that both planets ... read more

SPACE.WIRE NASA moves moon rocket to launch pad ahead of Artemis 2 mission ISS astronauts splash down on Earth after first-ever medical evacuation Astronauts leave ISS in first-ever medical evacuation Astronauts set to leave ISS in first-ever medical evacuation What happens when fire ignites in space? 'A ball of flame' Indian rocket hits snag during launch NASA says targeting ISS medical evacuation for January 14 International Space Station crew to return early after astronaut medical issue Trump shifts priority to Moon mission, not Mars Billionaire Trump nominee confirmed to lead NASA amid Moon race TECH.WIRE Pope warns against risks of AI algorithms Press Release from Business Wire: Saudi Ministry of Economy and Planning Press Release from Business Wire: DCX Liquid Cooling Systems Press Release from Business Wire: Infra UK woman felt 'violated, assaulted' by deepfake Grok images Press Release from Business Wire: SLB Malaysia lifts suspension on Musk's Grok chatbot TikTok: key things to know Press Release from Business Wire: FPT Corporation Press Release from Business Wire: Alipay+ NUKE.WIRE Denmark mulls small nuclear reactors, lifting of 1985 nuke ban Japan suspends restart of world's biggest nuclear plant Japan pauses restart of world's biggest nuclear plant 'They poisoned us': grappling with deadly impact of nuclear testing Japan restarts world's biggest nuclear plant Japan to restart world's biggest nuclear plant Wednesday North produces enough nuclear material a year for 10-20 weapons: S. Korea president Glitch delays restart of world's biggest nuclear plant in Japan Slovak PM hails nuclear energy deal after Trump meeting Russia, Ukraine agree 'localised ceasefire' for nuclear plant repairs: IAEA

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Titan interior study points to thick slushy ice shell instead of global ocean Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Careful reanalysis of measurements gathered more than a decade ago indicates that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, likely lacks a vast liquid-water ocean beneath its ice, contrary to earlier interpreta ... more NASA backs WHOI effort to read organic signals from ocean worlds Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Ocean worlds such as Jupiter's icy moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus are emerging as prime locations to search for life beyond Earth, potentially including a second, independent origin of life ... more Looking inside icy moons Davis, CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2025 The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky c ... more Cassini study reveals organic compounds from Enceladus ocean plume Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2025 Scientists analyzing NASA Cassini data have identified previously unknown organic compounds in ice particles emitted from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Evidence suggests these molecules originated from t ... more

Saturn moon mission planning shifts to flower constellation theory Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2025 Researchers have developed a satellite constellation approach designed for exploration around Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The framework, known as the 2D Necklace Flower Constellation, prioritizes ... more Saturn's icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life, study finds Oxford, UK (SPX) Nov 08, 2025 New findings from NASA's Cassini mission show that Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons and a top contender for extra-terrestrial life, is losing heat from both poles - indicating that it has the long-t ... more Unexpected discovery on Saturn's moon challenges our view on chemistry before life emerged Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery that challenges one of the basic rules of chemistry and provides new knowled ... more Cassini proves complex chemistry in Enceladus ocean Paris (ESA) Oct 06, 2025 Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus. This is a clear sign that complex chemical reaction ... more

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Available on Amazon Books Detection of phosphine in a brown dwarf atmosphere raises more questions La Jolla CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2025 Phosphorus is one of six key elements necessary for life on Earth. When combined with hydrogen, phosphorus forms the molecule phosphine (PH3), an explosive, highly toxic gas. Found in the atmosphere ... more

Out-of-this-world ice geysers on Saturn's Enceladus Austin TX (SPX) Oct 01, 2025 In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, bu ... more Saturn's hidden structures unveiled by James Webb Space Telescope London, UK (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 A study using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered striking new details in Saturn's upper atmosphere, revealing features unlike anything previously observed in the Solar System. The r ... more Small chip, grand mission: searching for signs of extraterrestrial life Delft, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 Is life possible - or has it ever been possible - on other planets? The (Origin of) Life Marker Chip (LMCOOL) seeks the answer. This innovative chip is being developed by a Dutch consortium led by T ... more NASA Study: Celestial 'Accident' Sheds Light on Jupiter, Saturn Riddle Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2025 An unusual cosmic object is helping scientists better understand the chemistry hidden deep in Jupiter and Saturn's atmospheres - and potentially those of exoplanets. Why has silicon, one of the most ... more

NASA Dragonfly Mission Advances Through Crucial Development and Testing Stages Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025 NASA's Dragonfly mission has successfully cleared several major design, development, and testing milestones, keeping it on track for launch in July 2028. Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered, car-size ... more

Radiation may explain organic molecules in Enceladus plumes Paris, France (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 Organic molecules discovered in the geyser-like plumes erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus may form when surface ices are exposed to radiation, rather than originating in its hidden subsurface oce ... more Hints emerge of giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A Paris, France (SPX) Aug 08, 2025 Astronomers using the NASA ESA CSA James Webb Space Telescope have gathered strong evidence pointing to a giant planet circling Alpha Centauri A, one of the Sun-like stars in the closest stellar sys ... more NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan Washington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2025 NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liq ... more Titan atmosphere wobbles like a gyroscope revealing seasonal shifts London, UK (SPX) May 26, 2025 The unusual motion of Titan's atmosphere has been uncovered by scientists at the University of Bristol using data from NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission. Their research shows that Saturn's largest moon ... more

Webb Observations Reveal Active Methane Cycle and Atmospheric Dynamics on Titan Paris, France (SPX) May 15, 2025 A team of researchers has used data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Keck II telescope to observe cloud convection on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in its northern hemisphere for t ... more Webb Finds First Clear Evidence of Frozen Water in Young Star System Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 15, 2025 Astronomers have long theorized that frozen water exists in the debris disks surrounding young stars, but definitive evidence has remained elusive - until now. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ... more Sidus Space and Saturn partner to build low cost high performance GEO satellites Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 01, 2025 Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), a provider of agile space mission support services, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Saturn Satellite Networks, Inc., a leader in GEO satellite systems ... more Super Earths Found Abundant in Distant Orbits Across the Galaxy Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2025 An international collaboration, including researchers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), has reported the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting ... more

Scientists investigate absence of sediment deltas on Titan Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2025 NASA's Mars missions have shown that sediment-rich deltas offer valuable insights into a planet's climate and geologic past. Yet on Saturn's moon Titan, where vast rivers of methane and ethane flow, ... more A little bit of space on Earth Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2025 There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar envelopes, or galactic gas clouds. One great challenge in astrochemistry is to u ... more On Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2025 Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed "mushballs," raining down like hailstones during a thundersto ... more Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount, study finds Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 10, 2025 Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like "sand," its topography has long fascinated scientists and ... more

Available on Amazon Books Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 18, 2025 The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ... more

MSU scientists discover new sources for 'the molecule that made the universe' East Lansing MI (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 From helping catalyze interstellar reactions and fueling the birth of stars to its presence in neighborhood gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter, trihydrogen, or H3+, is best known as the "the molecul ... more Tidal energy data aids SwRI scientists in unraveling Titan's composition and orbital shifts Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are examining Saturn's largest moon, Titan, to determine its tidal dissipation rate-the energy lost as it interacts with Saturn's immense gravitati ... more IGRINS on Gemini South Detects Surprising Signatures in Dynamic Atmosphere of Exoplanet WASP-121b Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our Solar System developed with gas giants far from our Sun, some planetary systems consist of ... more Berkeley Lab helps explore mysteries of Asteroid Bennu Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 During the past year, there's been an unusual set of samples at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab): material gathered from the 4.5-billion-year-old aster ... more

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