A new study of Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas finds evidence of a young, underground ocean that may be hospitable to early forms of life.

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A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

With its 123-mile radius, Mimas is Saturn’s smallest and innermost moon, and due to its tiny size, it does not hold a round enough shape to look like a typical moon.

Mimas looks much like our Moon, with a heavily cratered surface. It didn’t host any crisscrossing lines or broken pieces like Europa. And it certainly wasn’t spewing geysers like Enceladus.

Mimas look much like our Moon, with a heavily cratered surface. It didn’t host any crisscrossing lines or broken pieces like Europa. And it certainly wasn’t spewing geysers like Enceladus.

When a scientist discovered surprising evidence that Saturn's smallest, innermost moon could generate the right amount of heat to support a liquid internal ocean, colleagues began studying Mimas ...

Saturn’s tiny moon Mimas seems to have an ocean, too The ocean must have formed relatively recently, but we don't know how.

Astronomers have made a shock discovery that Saturn's moon Mimas seems to have a liquid ocean beneath its surface, potentially redefining our search for life on alien moons.

Recent studies of the moon also present a dichotomy with its fictional “twin.” While the Death Star was a harbinger of destruction, Mimas could harbor life, BBC Sky at Night reported in 2024 ...