NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting data and images from the mission’s final close flyby of Saturn’s active moon Enceladus. Cassini passed Enceladus at a distance of 3,106 miles (4,999 ...

Alien life may be hiding much closer to home than science fiction would have us believe, according to a particle physicist ...

What lifeforms could potentially exist within the ocean of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists could one day find traces of life on Enceladus, an ocean-covered moon orbiting Saturn. NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY-SA ...

A thrilling chapter in the exploration of the solar system will soon conclude, as NASA’s Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft makes its final close flyby of the ocean-bearing moon Enceladus. Cassini is ...

Enceladus once looked like a small frozen moon, but Cassini’s flybys revealed huge plumes erupting from its south pole and ...

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft indicates the presence of large organic molecules on Enceladus, something not found on the moon before. Using two instruments aboard the ...

Scientists have found traces of phosphorus, a fundamental ingredient for life, in ice grains spewed into space by Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. Enceladus is a tiny (310-mile-wide, or 500-kilometer ...

Blobs of warm ice that periodically rise to the surface and churn the icy crust on Saturn’s moon Enceladus explain the quirky heat behavior and intriguing surface of the moon’s south polar region, ...

These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Tethys were taken April 14, 2012, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 kilometers) ...