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 ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

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

"This monochrome view is the last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft," NASA explains of the ...

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

Possible microbes in the Mariana Trench hint at life on Jupiter’s moon. During the 2012 DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition to the deepest part of the ocean, scientists spotted fuzzy mats that may be ...

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