The image, which was captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft prior to its fateful descent into Saturn’s atmosphere, shows Enceladus bathed in light from the sun. It’s a gorgeous photo ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

who helped pore through a bulk of data about Enceladus, collected by NASA's Voyager and Cassini missions. The goal of the analysis was to compare images of the same region taken by these ...

In light of this discovery, SwRI’s Dr. Christopher Glein was awarded a NASA JWST Cycle 2 allocation to study the plume as well as the icy surface of Enceladus, to better understand the potential ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...

It's also more evidence that life could arise on the dwarf planet Ceres and Saturn's moon Enceladus. NASA probed an asteroid and found an ancient repository of ingredients for life. The findings ...