Europe is quietly positioning itself to attempt one of the most audacious missions in planetary exploration: a dedicated ...

The European Space Agency is planning an ambitious mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, launching in the 2040s. Utilizing an ...

The Cassini spacecraft viewed a bright star passing behind a plume of gas and dust spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The Saturn-orbiting Cassini probe, using its Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus is known for spewing jets of water-ice into space, with new research revealing a potential mechanism behind this phenomenon. Reading time 2 minutes Jostling on the fault lines ...

Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water from a ...

Ice grains from Enceladus reveal the richest mix of organics yet, offering the strongest clues that the moon’s hidden ocean ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a potential home for life in our solar system. In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft first discovered towering plumes of water vapor erupting from the ...

Enceladus is famous for its liquid water ocean and gigantic geysers, but it's pumping out a lot less water these days, and no one is sure why yet. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

Experts have discovered that the moon is leaking heat from both of its poles, which they say indicates that Enceladus could ...

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Pasadena, Calif. — In a David and Goliath story of Saturnian proportions, the little moon Enceladus is weighing down giant Saturn’s magnetic field so much that the field is rotating slower than the ...

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