Scientists believe Enceladus – Saturn’s sixth-largest moon – contains a saltwater ocean beneath its icy crust. Using state-of-the-art techniques, scientists detected certain organic substances for the ...

Complex organic molecules, which are essential for the formation of life's building blocks, have been detected in the icy plumes of Enceladus. The discovery comes nearly two decades after Cassini ...

Cassini data reveals complex organic molecules in Enceladus’s icy jets. The findings suggest its underground ocean may host ...

Complex organic molecules that form part of the chain of chemical reactions that can result in life's building blocks have ...

Fresh analysis of Cassini data has revealed new complex organic molecules inside ice grains spewing from Enceladus. These discoveries strengthen the case that the moon’s underground ocean hosts ...

When it comes to habitable places in our solar system, the tiny moons of Saturn don’t seem likely candidates. Yet time and ...

Reanalyzing data from Cassini's 2008 flyby reveals new, complex organic molecules in the spray from Saturn’s icy moon ...

Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from ...

Enceladus gives researchers a unique window into its subsurface world. The Cassini mission already taught us that plumes of ...

Titan’s atmosphere tilts and shifts seasonally. The discovery shapes future exploration. Researchers at the University of Bristol have uncovered unusual behavior in Titan’s atmosphere for the first ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

On a temporary scale, the rings are coming back, but in the (much) longer term they’re probably a beautiful but transient ...