Enceladus, a small moon orbiting Saturn, was the first icy ocean world to be identified, and now scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWS News Today's news ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a 6,000 mile-long plume of water squirting into space from Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus, creating a massive watery cloud in the planet's orbit.

Enceladus, a frozen moon orbiting Saturn, has caught the interest of scientists because of the plumes of water vapor that erupt from its icy crust, which are possible evidence for a subsurface ocean.

The plume measures at least 6,000 miles long — which is already more than twice the width of the United States — making it the largest of its kind detected on the distant moon Enceladus.

Enceladus’ famous plume dwarfs the moon itself. Geysers on Saturn’s icy moon spew water vapor nearly 10,000 kilometers into space, a distance about 19 times the diameter of Enceladus ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus is famous for its plumes that spray water into space. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has watched the biggest known plume so far, spanning thousands of miles, and ...

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Enceladus is one of the most intriguing and mysterious worlds in our solar system with its plumes of water ice being ejected from its subsurface ocean via cracks in its south pole.

The plumes come from Enceladus’s south pole, and Webb was able to spot them even though the entire moon is just over 300 miles across. Despite that small size, the plume Webb observed spanned ...

Enceladus' plumes, seen here in a Cassini spacecraft image, could be carrying microorganisms within their water. (Image credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/Space Science Institute) ...

An enormous vapor plume more than twice the width of the United States has been spotted streaming out of one of Saturn's moons. NASA said the 6,000-mile jet was the first water emission of this ...

Plumes can be seen releasing water vapor and organic compounds into space at the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science ...