One of Saturn’s many moons, Enceladus, might look like a frozen wasteland, but astronomers are now saying it has all of the ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely ...

CANNES, France—The European Space Agency (ESA), as part of its “Moons of the giant Solar ... ESA Outlines Saturn Mission With Enceladus Landing is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

when studying Enceladus, every detail really matters — which brings us to a new, very strange detail that scientists have their eye on: A weird, disappearing dark spot on this ice-capped moon.

Although Jupiter and Mars have been dominating the eastern sky, there’s more here to view than just planets. Already 50° high an hour after sunset, the bright, magnitude 0.1 star Capella stands ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede, as well as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are considered prime candidates. The surfaces of these moons are covered with thick ice layers, and below them, ocean water ...