Recent research has unveiled that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s icy moons, may be home to a stable subsurface ocean that could ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet’s giant moon Titan. The spacecraft made its closest approach to Titan today ...

What kind of mission would be best suited to sample the plumes of Saturn's ocean world, Enceladus, to determine if this intriguing world has the ingredients to harbor life? This is what a recent study ...

A heavily cratered landscape crossed by networks of parallel fissures snapped by the Cassini probe during yesterday's close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, the first ever of it north polar region.

A fresh look at data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has uncovered more evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may be able to support life, with additional complex organic molecules identified ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, bolstering the likelihood that the ocean world may harbor conditions ...

The evidence that an ocean-covered moon orbiting around Saturn could support life just got a little stronger. Enceladus, a small moon harboring a vast ocean beneath its icy surface, has long been ...

5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo. A gorgeous look at what it would be like to approach Saturn, using actual images from the Cassini spacecraft: What would it look ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus is a frozen world, but it isn't frozen solid. Colossal cryovolcanoes near the ice-locked moon's south pole send plumes from its briny global ocean so far into space that they ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 16 miles of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Oct. 9 and measure molecules in its space environment that could give insight into the ...

Photo cuts through haze to reveal some of the features on moon's surface. This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, acquired during the mission ...

Controlled from 774 million miles away, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will swoop within 30 miles of the surface of one of Saturn’s moons Wednesday, in an unprecedented flyby maneuver. In a moment long ...