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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American After more than ten years in orbit around ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking study, NASA’s Cassini mission reveals new discoveries about the organic chemistry on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. Published Wednesday in Nature Astronomy and further detailed ...

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, ...

Bonnie J. Buratti, Cassini scientist on the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer Team: After so many close flybys of Enceladus, we’re starting to feel as if this little moon of Saturn is an old ...

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 ...

From a distance, Saturn’s moon Enceladus is nothing special. The sixth-largest Saturnian moon is an icy world located too far from the Sun, which makes it an unlikely candidate for life. But after ...

How can Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, influence its much larger parent planet? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics hopes to address as a team of ...

Shortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed only ...