So how many rings does Saturn have, anyway? If you can see them from your backyard, there must be a lot, right?
Saturn’s rings are one of the jewels of the Solar System, but it seems that their time is short and their existence fleeting. A new study suggests the rings are between 400 million and 100 ...
Despite its charmingly bug-sized name, Dragonfly is a beast of a machine unlike any NASA's ever designed, and will be able to ...
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The airline industry is notorious for dumping thousands of tons of greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere each year, but a new study finds the plastics industry is multiple times worse.
In the case of Dragonfly, NASA confirmed the mission with a total lifecycle cost of $3.35 billion and a launch date of July 2028. That is roughly twice the mission's original proposed cost and a delay ...
NASA has been given the go-ahead to send a flying drone-like lander to explore Titan, the largest of Saturn’s 146 moons.
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NASA’s maiden mission to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has received the final green light and a major financial boost.
A newsletter briefing on the intersection of technology and politics. Happy Thursday! Repeatedly heating up and cooling down the same food can cause it to spoil. What about privacy negotiations?
Just don’t pick that turd Koopa Troopa. Who hasn’t spent sleepless nights pondering what would happen if we applied the theories of Vilfredo Pareto, the early 20th-century Italian economist ...