Saturn has a strange electromagnetic relationship with Enceladus, and scientists have captured snippets of this bond in a short audio clip that observers on Earth can listen to. Just before NASA's ...

In our solar system, Saturn’s moon Enceladus is unique: It provides scientists direct access to a global ocean hidden beneath the moon’s icy surface. That’s because Enceladus is constantly venting its ...

In Gustav Holst’s “The Planets,” a sweeping, seven-part composition inspired by Earth’s neighbors in the solar system, the song of Saturn begins softly, with the gentle hum of flutes. The melody, ...

Seemingly sleepy Enceladus — a moon of Saturn’s just a fraction of the size of our own satellite — was barely on the radar of astronomers up until the Cassini mission arrived at the system in 2004.

Data captured by the Cassini spacecraft has been used to create a global infrared map of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. The icy world plays host to the dramatic "Tiger Stripe" vent formation which ...

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Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn—The Geyser Moon, with its highly reflective surface and almost crater-less terrain, this icy moon is one of the many wonders of the solar system. In fact, ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus joins Earth, Saturn's moon Titan and Jupiter’s moon Europa in being a solar system body with liquid water on or below its surface. An ocean of water lies beneath Europa's 18 to ...

The question of whether or not we’ll ever find other traces of life in our Solar System has so far remained unanswered, but there are a few places that scientists think they’ll have the best chance of ...

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus sprays water vapor into space. Scientists have thought that the plumes come from a deep subsurface ocean — but that might not be the case, new simulations suggest. Instead, ...

Two studies suggest that a moon of Saturn called Enceladus has active hydrothermal vents at the bottom of an ice-covered sea — and that the heat from those vents warms the sea to a temperature that ...