At first glance, Saturn's moon Enceladus seems rather unremarkable: it is much smaller than the Earth's moon and is far away and completely covered in ice. Yet beneath its frozen crust lies an ocean ...

Cassini narrow-angle camera image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. There are complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like "sand," its topography has long fascinated scientists and ...

A lot of attention has recently concentrated on the chances of finding life on Saturn’s other moon, Titan or the dwarf planet Ceres. While that remains a strong possibility, new information gathered ...

The evidence that an ocean-covered moon orbiting around Saturn could support life just got a little stronger. Enceladus, a small moon harboring a vast ocean beneath its icy surface, has long been ...