The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

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Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...

What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

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NASA's Europa Clipper mission has launched to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which may harbor a potentially habitable ocean ...

An artist's concept of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech The Margaret Jones Wyllie '45 Engineering Program evans-aeros ...