You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of 394,000 miles (634,000 ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Earlier this year, researchers discovered that a vast liquid ocean lurks beneath the icy shell of Saturn's tiny moon, Mimas. Now the same team may have discovered how it was created. New research ...

Saturn’s moons have been the subject of a lot of astronomical attention over the years. They range in size from the ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

“What we’ve done is put forth a strong case for an ocean,” study coauthor David Stevenson ... Apparently, the gravitational forces that Enceladus experiences as it orbits Saturn and interacts with a ...

Mimas' Surprise: Tiny Moon of Saturn Holds Young Ocean Beneath Icy Shell Feb. 7, 2024 — Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit ...

"Tidal forces from Saturn pull on the shell of Enceladus as the moon orbits the planet, just as the sun and moon cause ocean tides on Earth. Variation in the tidal pull laterally across the ice ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered ... geysers come from a vast — potentially habitable — underground ocean. Liquid from the ocean, scientists believed, could be escaping ...