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NASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar syst - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMTSaturn's moon Mimas looks like a dead, cratered rock — its surface is so inert that scientists assumed it was frozen solid — but in 2024 astronomers confirmed a global ocean hidden beneath the ice, formed just 5 to 15 million years ago - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:34:18 GMTSaturn now has at least 285 confirmed moons — after astronomers recognised 128 new ones in a single announcement in March 2025 and another 11 in March 2026 — making every textbook printed before 2024 quietly wrong on the subject - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMTTitan is moving away from Saturn about 11 centimetres every year — roughly 100 times faster than scientists once believed — suggesting the moon may have begun its life much closer to the planet - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:25:13 GMTIn 1980 NASA had to choose between sending Voyager 1 past Titan or keeping it on a course that could reach Pluto, and it picked Titan, ending the mission's planet-hopping for good — the flyby flung the probe out of the plane of the planets, and it never made - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:30:13 GMTRain does fall on Titan, but models suggest some regions wait decades between storms, and then get hit hard — the dry low latitudes appear to get their weather in rare violent downpours clustered around the equinoxes - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:00:37 GMTA 2025 study tested whether impacts could keep Titan’s methane skies alive and found that a 20-kilometre object released up to 1% of the atmosphere’s methane directly, while even favourable impact histories extended its lifetime by no more than 3%, leaving - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:58:00 GMTNASA has approved one of its strangest missions yet: Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered drone the size of a car that will fly across Saturn's moon Titan, the one place beyond Earth with rain, rivers and seas, hunting for the chemistry that comes before life - Space DailySpace Daily · Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:37:35 GMT