NASA’s Cassini spacecraft acquired images to create this composite of Saturn’s largest Orbiter, Titan, on November 13, 2015. Credit: NASA Saturn’s largest Orbiter, Titan, is particularly captivating for scientists. This is thanks in large part to its status as the only other planetary body in the Planetary system known to host an atmosphere about 1.5 … Read more
In what might be a Primary in spaceflight history, the next crew to Initiation to the International Space Station has adopted a mission patch that began with ideas generated by an AI (artificial intelligence). The use of a computer system to perform a task that has usually required human creatively is still new in the … Read more
In 2023, debate erupted in the astronomy community about whether life could exist on an exoplanet called K2-18b. It Began when a group of scientists published a paper suggesting a specific chemical, dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, may exist in the planet’s atmosphere. A consensus wasn’t reached at the time, and conversation has certainly continued into … Read more