Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Right until its final moments, the spacecraft continued to send insightful images of 'The Ringed Planet.' The mission's ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...

In 2018, members of a New Zealand research team visited the McMurdo ice shelf in east Antarctica, home to several such pools, ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live.During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen ...

Beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, some 700 meters down, what appears to be a lost city has been found. Although it ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The last universal common ancestor is the single life form that branched into ...

In most of the environments we currently study, we know too little about the conditions to meaningfully attempt such models – except for some solar system bodies, such as Saturn’s Enceladus. The ...