Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

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

Enceladus is a 309-mile-wide (498 kilometers ... Related: Saturn's moons: Facts about the weird and wonderful satellites of the ringed planet ESA convened a 12-person panel of planetary scientists ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

This finding has implications for another moon with an ocean, Enceladus, which orbits Saturn. Because of the strong magnetosphere of its host planet, the water on Enceladus is ionized and gets ...

Ceres, a 580-mile-wide dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, still has brine sloshing through its interior. Enceladus, a 310-mile-wide moon of Saturn, has an icy shell encasing a salty ocean with many of ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is an obvious target but Enceladus (pictured ... 1 system in the constellation Aquarius. Because this planet is thought to be tidally locked to its star, meaning ...

Enceladus, a moon of Saturn ... Heat from radioactivity deep inside a planet can warm water enough to keep it liquid (as we see in Antarctica and the Canadian Arctic). Gravitational effects ...