Enceladus’ subsurface ocean composition hints at habitable conditions. A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from…
How Enceladus Got Its Stripes New research reveals the physics governing the fissures through which ocean water erupts from the moon’s icy surface. Saturn’s icy…
Saturn’s tiny, frozen moon Enceladus is a strange place. Just 300 miles across, the moon is thought to have an outer shell of ice covering…
New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The findings are the…
New research from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s up-close Grand Finale orbits shows a surprisingly powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its…
Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal complex organic molecules originating from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, strengthening the idea that this ocean world hosts conditions suitable…
Off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island and more than 3,000 feet beneath the ocean surface lie the warm, bubbling springs of a volcano —…
Saturn’s moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view that NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured on November 1, 2009. The…
Saturn’s moon Enceladus drifts before the rings, which glow brightly in the sunlight. Beneath its icy exterior shell, Enceladus hides a global ocean of liquid…
Santa’s winter workshop might be in space, as University of Warwick researchers are exploring whether snowy moons over a billion kilometers away from Earth are…
A new study by European and U.S. researchers shows that heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn’s moon Enceladus for billions of years…
Engineers and scientists at NASA have conceived and plan to build an ambitious submillimeter-wave or radio instrument to study the composition of geysers spewing water…
This Cassini Spacecraft image show the brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space. The rest of the moon,…
Using images from the last dedicated observation of the Enceladus plume by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft, astronomers put together this short movie sequence. The images were…
This short sequence of images was captured by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft as both Enceladus and Cassini moved over a 15-minute period. The heavens often seem…
NASA has announced that they will use the infrared capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope to study the “ocean worlds” of Jupiter’s moon Europa…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Enceladus’ intriguing south-polar jets from afar, backlit by sunlight while the moon itself glows softly in reflected Saturn-shine. Observations of the…
New data from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft reveals evidence that the active south polar region of Enceladus — the fractured terrain seen here at bottom —…