Enceladus might be one of the most fascinating places in the solar system, but getting there is brutally difficult. The distance alone means years of travel, massive fuel demands, and precision ...

When Daniel Abdulah learned to write, his earliest scribbles included the names of planets, in order, alongside little drawings of each one. That early fascination with worlds beyond Earth never ...

The European Space Agency is planning an ambitious mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, launching in the 2040s. Utilizing an orbiter and lander, the mission will directly sample material from the ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky ...

Saturn's moon Mimas, just 250 miles wide, could have a liquid water ocean under its outer icy shell, according to new research led by Max Rudolph at UC Davis. If such moons are the right size, water ...

As you're reading this, humanity is closer than it has ever been to confirming the existence of life in various forms on other planets. And I'm not talking here about Mars, the most likely suspect to ...

A new deep-dive into NASA’s Cassini data has turned up the richest assortment yet of organic compounds erupting from Enceladus, the small, ice-sheathed moon that hides a global ocean beneath its crust ...

Scientists have long been trying to find signs of life on other planets, and a recent discovery could bring them one step closer to achieving that aim. A new study suggests that one of Saturn's icy ...