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Astrobiology Jun 5, 2025

Titan may be the liveliest place in the solar system

Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it's an extremophile in a hot spring or some lithotroph buried in the crust, depends on water.

Space Exploration May 22, 2025

NASA's Dragonfly mission sets sights on Titan's mysteries

When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn's moon Titan, NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan's equator. Clouds drift across its skies. Rain drizzles. Rivers ...

Planetary Sciences May 22, 2025

Titan's mysterious wobbling atmosphere is like a gyroscope, new research suggests

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol for the first time. By analyzing data from the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint venture between NASA, the European ...

Planetary Sciences May 7, 2025

Improving in-situ analysis of planetary regolith with OptiDrill

What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a team ...

Astrobiology Apr 21, 2025

A new concept for an astrobiology mission to Enceladus

This year's Lunar Planetary Science Conference (2025 LPSC) saw some truly astounding presentations and proposals. These covered a wide range of science and exploration missions that address the priorities of NASA, other space ...

Astrobiology Feb 25, 2025

Mission concept proposes sampling Enceladus's subsurface ocean

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially discovering life as we know it? This is what a recent study presented at the American Geophysical Union ...

Planetary Sciences Jan 27, 2025

Experiments corroborate theory about how Titan maintains its atmosphere

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the ...

Bio & Medicine Dec 3, 2024

Tiny dancers: Scientists synchronize bacterial motion

Researchers at TU Delft have discovered that E. coli bacteria can synchronize their movements, creating order in seemingly random biological systems. By trapping individual bacteria in micro-engineered circular cavities and ...

Astrobiology Dec 3, 2024

Dragonfly is going to Titan on a Falcon Heavy

NASA has given SpaceX the contract to launch the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan. A Falcon Heavy will send the rotorcraft and its lander on their way to Titan in 2028, if all goes according to plan, and the mission ...

Condensed Matter Oct 15, 2024

Spin-wave reservoir chips can enhance edge computing

Reservoir computing (RC) has a few benefits over other artificial neural networks, including the reservoir that gives this technique its name. The reservoir functions mainly to nonlinearly transform input data more quickly ...

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