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IN A NUTSHELL 🪐 Scientists discover Titan’s atmosphere behaves like a gyroscope, shifting tilt with the seasons. 🔍 The University of Bristol uses Cassini data to uncover Titan’s unique atmospheric behavior. 🚀 Findings impact NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission to Titan, improving landing trajectory calculations. 🌌 Titan’s atmospheric dynamics prompt broader questions in atmospheric science and planetary exploration. Saturn’s largest moon, …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌕 The Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) is designed to navigate the Moon’s extreme conditions and extend mission capabilities. 🔋 General Motors is leveraging its battery technology to provide the LTV with a rechargeable battery lasting up to ten years. 🛠️ The LTV features advanced mobility technologies like Crab Walking and zero-point turning for lunar navigation. 🚀 NASA’s …

Artsiom P/Shutterstock Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer planets of the solar system. Its mission has transcended planetary flybys; it’s now humanity’s first direct way …

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer planets of the solar system. Its mission has transcended planetary flybys; it’s now humanity’s first direct way to explore interstellar space. NASA has used radio to talk to Voyager …

From left to right, NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman, CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA’s Christina Koch For the crew that’s going to return humanity to the Moon, the Artemis 2 mission astronauts recently said they were fully ready and focused on the task at hand, with everything else being just noise. Everything else is a lot, since …

A Duke alumna prepares to make history as one of the first women to possibly set foot on the moon and soon Mars. Anna Menon, 39, is one of ten people selected as NASA’s new astronaut candidates. The Houston native holds a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University and previously worked in NASA’s Mission Control Center at NASA …

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers were able to study the chemistry surrounding a world called CT Cha b. Though no moons have yet been detected in this particular …

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstration has completed its final pass, although there is a chance the system might be reactivated in the second half of 2026. Carried aboard NASA’s Psyche mission, DSOC demonstrated how data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded. On September 2, the final communications pass was made from a distance of …

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon-rich disk surrounding the world called CT Cha b, which is located 625 light-years away from Earth, is a possible construction yard for moons, although no moons are detected in the Webb data. …

Orbital observation On Monday (Sept. 22), NASA named its next class of astronaut candidates during a ceremony held at Johnson Space Center in Houston. In addition to recording a message to the new trainees, members of the Expedition 73 crew also shared a photo (below) of them watching Group 24 being introduced. “To the newest astronaut class, from the crew …