For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

On Oct. 26, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft made its first close pass by Saturn's planet-size moon, Titan (later known as Titan ...

The Cassini spacecraft flew by the small, icy moon in 2008, collecting information that suggests it shoots out molecules that ...

Scientists found new evidence to strengthen the case that Enceladus, small moon of Saturn about 310 miles wide, may have conditions suitable for life.

Scientists reexamining data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have uncovered exciting new evidence from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. The spacecraft detected complex organic molecules being blasted into ...

A fresh analysis of old data has found rich organic chemistry within the hidden ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...

Complex organic molecules that form part of the chain of chemical reactions that can result in life's building blocks have ...

Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, bolstering the likelihood that the ocean ...

When we imagine finding alien life elsewhere in the solar system, we usually think of little green people (or more likely microbes) living on the surface of a rocky Earth-like world. Most of our ...

Just six months after the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, its cameras caught something spectacular. It was Jan. 16, 2005, and Cassini was zipping past Enceladus, a bright, tiny moon just 313 ...

PASADENA, California -- One of Saturn's moons may have quite literally tipped over in the distant past, new findings from NASA suggest. According to observations from the Cassini spacecraft, Enceladus ...

The spacecraft is set to plunge to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in April. — -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning a series of "ring grazing" orbits today to study Saturn's rings and moons ...