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 ...

After a 20-year voyage, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is poised to dive into Saturn this week to become forever one with the exquisite planet. There's no turning back: Friday it careens through the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon. Iapetus was discovered by the Italian ...

In 2008, NASA’s now-departed Cassini spacecraft made its fastest flyby of Enceladus, the moon of Saturn that’s spewing its subsurface ocean into space. A new analysis of data from that flyby has ...

NASA's Cassini probe zipped by Saturn's largest moon Titan on Tuesday (July 24) in a close flyby to search for a lake filled with liquid methane. The Cassini spacecraft flew within 629 miles (1,012 ...

Lab simulations show that Enceladus, Saturn's icy moon, is actively producing building blocks of life.

What lifeforms could potentially exist within the ocean of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...