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

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

New findings suggest that Saturn’s rings formed a few hundred million years ago—relatively recent in cosmic terms—from the debris of two icy moons colliding and shattering. Such a ...

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

But researchers now believe extraterrestrials could be lurking deep in the oceans on other worlds - like Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus. Ames and his team found that Enceladus's ocean could behave ...

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 ...

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

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days later a young moon will pass near Saturn and near Venus as they cluster ...

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 ...