Cutting-edge simulations show that Enceladus’ plumes are losing 20–40% less mass than earlier estimates suggested. The new ...

In this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2009, dramatic plumes of water ice and vapor are seen erupting from ...

How much ice is Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, losing to space when it discharges its interior ocean? This is what a recent study ...

A new analysis of old Cassini data has also verified past detections of complex organics in Saturn’s E ring, strengthening ...

Researchers have found Saturn’s moon Enceladus has heat circulating beneath its icy crust, meaning the chemistry of biology ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

Experts have discovered that the moon is leaking heat from both of its poles, which they say indicates that Enceladus could ...

Cassini data reveal how Saturn’s moon Enceladus leaks enough heat to keep its buried ocean warm and potentially habitable ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini pointed some of the earliest telescopes at Saturn and made a surprising ...

W hen we imagine alien life in books or on TV, we often think of planets like ours inhabited by extraterrestrial people. The ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...