The geysers of Enceladus, this icy moon of Saturn, continue to reveal their secrets long after the Cassini probe's passage. Twenty years after the first samples were collected, a meticulous ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

Scientists found new evidence to strengthen the case that Enceladus, small moon of Saturn about 310 miles wide, may have ...

At the same time, significant reserves of organic material, combined with the subglacial ocean of water, seas of methane and ...

Scientists discovered new organic molecules in Enceladus's geysers, suggesting potential habitability, but not confirming life presence.

Scientists reexamining data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered exciting new evidence from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. The spacecraft detected complex organic molecules being blasted into ...

On a pale morning in January 2005, a metallic object the size of a dishwasher descended through the thick haze of Saturn’s ...

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a ...

A particular cornerstone of prebiotic chemistry is hydrogen cyanide, which, under the right conditions, forms compounds that ...

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

With the recent discovery of traces of what may or may not be or have been life on Mars, eyes are turning to another world in ...

After 20 years in the cold void of space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ran out of fuel and crashed into Saturn. This sounds like a very expensive failure by NASA—-but it is NOT!, here’s why: This year, ...