Saturn

Dragonfly

Missions

NASA Directorates

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Planets

Saturn

Saturn Moons

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Sets Sights on Titan’s Mysteries

When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan’s equator. Clouds drift across its skies. Rain drizzles. Rivers flow, forming canyons, lakes and seas. But not everything is as familiar as it seems.

Posted May 22, 2025

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Planets

Saturn

Saturn Moons

Science & Research

The Solar System

Titan

Webb’s Titan Forecast: Partly Cloudy With Occasional Methane Showers

Saturn’s moon Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, including clouds and rain. Unlike Earth, whose weather is driven by evaporating and condensing water, frigid Titan has a methane cycle.

Posted May 14, 2025

Hubble Space Telescope

Rings of Saturn

Saturn

A Saturnian Summer

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn and its colossal rings on July 4, 2020, during summer in the gas giant’s northern hemisphere. Two of Saturn’s icy moons are also clearly visible: Mimas at right, and Enceladus at bottom. The light reddish haze over the northern hemisphere seen in this color composite could […]

Posted July 24, 2024

Cassini

Rings of Saturn

Saturn

Cassini Sees Saturn

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft captured this last “eyeful” of Saturn and its rings on March 27, 2004, as it continued its way to orbit insertion. This natural color image shows the color variations between atmospheric bands and features in the southern hemisphere of Saturn, subtle color differences across the planet’s middle B ring, as well as […]

Posted July 2, 2024

Voyager Program

Heliophysics

Heliosphere

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jupiter

Neptune

Planetary Science

Saturn

The Solar System

Uranus

Voyager 1

Voyager 2

Ed Stone, Former Director of JPL, Voyager Project Scientist, Dies

Known for his steady leadership, consensus building, and enthusiasm for engaging the public in science, Stone left a deep impact on the space community. Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and longtime project scientist of the agency’s Voyager mission, died on June 9, 2024. He was 88. He […]

Posted June 11, 2024

Earth's Moon

Jupiter

Saturn

A Moonlit Trio

The Moon (left), Saturn, and Jupiter (lower right; Saturn is above and to the left of Jupiter) were seen in the sky above the Washington Memorial on Dec. 17, 2020. At the time, Saturn and Jupiter were nearing each other in the sky, culminating in a “great conjunction” on Dec. 21, where they appeared a […]

Posted May 3, 2024

Dragonfly

Goddard Space Flight Center

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Saturn

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed

NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science instruments.

Posted April 17, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Planets

Rings of Saturn

Saturn

The Solar System

NASA’s Hubble Watches ‘Spoke Season’ on Saturn

This photo of Saturn was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850 million miles from Earth. Hubble’s ultra-sharp vision reveals a phenomenon called ring spokes. Saturn’s spokes are transient features that rotate along with the rings.

Posted December 21, 2023

Cassini

Astrobiology

Enceladus

Planetary Science

Saturn

Saturn Moons

The Solar System

NASA Study Finds Life-Sparking Energy Source and Molecule at Enceladus

A study zooms in on data that NASA’s Cassini gathered at Saturn’s icy moon and finds evidence of a key ingredient for life and a supercharged source of energy to fuel it. Scientists have known that the giant plume of ice grains and water vapor spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus is rich with organic compounds, […]

Posted December 14, 2023

Ames Research Center

Air Traffic Control Labs

Air Traffic Solutions

Ames Research Center's Science Directorate

CubeSats

Earth Science

General

High-Tech Computing

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Jessica Watkins

Lunar Explorer Instrument for space biology Applications (LEIA)

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)

Quesst (X-59)

Rings of Saturn

Saturn

Saturn Moons

VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)

Water & Energy Cycle

Wildfires

2023 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley

It’s been another great year at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Join us as we review some of the highlights of the science, engineering, and innovation from 2023. Announcing a New Innovation Hub Planned for NASA Research Park at Ames Berkeley Space Center is a proposed new campus of the University of […]

Posted December 13, 2023