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 ...

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

The image, released by NASA this week, was taken by the spacecraft on Oct. 23, when it was about 114,000 miles away from Saturn's moon Mimas. The small moon, which is known as Saturn's "Death Star ...

But Mimas continues to puzzle scientists. The small moon orbits closer to Saturn than Enceladus and has a much larger eccentric (elongated) orbit. In theory, Mimas should receive more tidal ...

"There has been this sense that because Titan has such abundant organics, there is no shortage of food sources that could sustain life," Affholder said. "Not all of these organic molecules may ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and ...

The race between Jupiter and Saturn for the most moons in the Solar System may have just finally come screeching to a halt.

This image, one of 77 photographs that appeared in our 2016 exhibition, Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, shows the diminutive moon Mimas transiting across Saturn's northern latitudes, with ...

Saturn's first moon, Titan, was discovered in 1655 by Christiaan ... William Herschel spotted Mimas and Enceladus in 1789. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...

The new image ... Evidence That Saturn's Moon Mimas Is a Stealth Ocean World Jan. 31, 2023 — When a scientist discovered surprising evidence that Saturn's smallest, innermost moon could generate ...

You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the official recognition of 128 new Saturnian moons, bringing its total to an ...