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...
18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
... has not witnessed this level of power since the testing of Saturn V stages in the 1960s,” said Stennis Center Director Rick Gilbrech... is the premier rocket propulsion facility that tested the Saturn V first and second stages that carried humans to ...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
...-held device for measuring blood viscosity in patients taking anti-coagulants;1 while research on ways to land instrumentation on Saturn’s moon, Titan, has led – incredibly – to a more efficient way to fill packages with lightweight products such...
