Searching for life on other celestial bodies, or at the very least the necessary components to support it, has been ...

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long fascinated scientists due to its dramatic geysers, which blast plumes of water vapor, ...

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially ...

The elusive wild lynx still roams parts of the United States, but their numbers are dangerously low due to habitat loss, ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took many dramatic images of the rings’ shadows on Saturn.

Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

A kingly crescent Saturn rests on the right of this Cassini spacecraft portrait while the moon Mimas appears above the rings on the left. Like a silvery pearl, an icy moon crosses the face of Saturn, ...

Callisto, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, looks like a boring, crater-filled world. It doesn’t seem to have much going on ...

The rings consist of huge numbers of mostly icy particles ranging from centimeters ... Their combined mass is similar to that of Saturn’s moon Mimas. All these particles orbit Saturn in Saturn ...

The spectacular planet parade has captured the attention of keen astronomers in recent weeks. Throughout the month, Mars, ...