NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn July 4, 2020. Two of Saturn's icy moons are clearly visible in this exposure: Mimas at right and Enceladus at the bottom. This image is ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there ...

This research offers a glimpse into the dramatic events that might have shaped Saturn’s rings and moons, and raises tantalizing questions about the potential for life within this enigmatic ...

Jonah Peter, a doctoral student at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), has focused on how Saturn’s moons affect the ring environment. His work connects the motions of this ring material ...

"After staring at dozens and dozens of image pairs, she found something interesting." Of all the planets in our solar system, Saturn is by far the mooniest. And that's saying a lot. Sure, we're ...

Others suggested the rings are very young, perhaps originating after Saturn's gravitational pull tore apart a comet or an icy moon. Scientists had thought one way to solve this mystery was a ...

Saturn boasts 146 known moons and counting, with Titan being the largest. Many of these moons exhibit diverse geological features, atmospheres, and even subsurface oceans, akin to planets and dwarf ...

Mysterious dark spot observed on Enceladus fades over time Enceladus’ icy plumes may explain the vanishing feature NASA’s Cassini mission images reveal the anomaly’s disappearance ...

A mysterious dark spot on Saturn's moon Enceladus has baffled scientists after it faded over several years. Discovered through NASA’s Cassini mission, the spot's sudden disappearance raises ...