February 18, 2005 -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had a busy week, snapping stunning new images of two of Saturn's moons -- smoggy Titan on Feb. 15 and wrinkled Enceladus on Feb. 16.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is seen with Titan, the largest Saturnian satellite, in the background in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured on Feb. 5, 2006.

"Titan and Enceladus, another icy moon of Saturn, are chemically connected by the flow of material through the Saturn system," Cooper said. In one paper, ...

NASA's search for life is taking a bold turn toward the coldest corners of the solar system. Moons like Europa, Titan, and Enceladus are no longer seen as dead rocks - but potential homes for life.

Meanwhile, on average, Titan and Enceladus experienced impacts with lower impact velocities, creating peak pressures that fall within the tolerance range for both bacterial spores and amino acids.

Saturn’s moon Titan would not be a comfy place for Earthlike microbes, even as alien worlds go. It lacks a global ocean like the ones found on Europa and Enceladus, and it doesn’t enjoy the ...

Commentary: Enceladus has now offered, on a space platter, the easiest way so far to examine the potential for life in the solar system. What we find could shed light on our own life here on Earth.

While the scientist avoids rating Enceladus to Mars and Europa--other targets of keen astrobiology interest--McKay noted: "But clearly the Saturn system with organic rich Titan and water-active ...

The authors speculate in their work about the “fascinating applications” of the cenotectic concept to planetary science, particularly for “icy worlds such as Europa, Enceladus, Titan ...

Titan\'s thick haze layer is shown in this enhanced Voyager 1 image taken Nov. 12, ... Enceladus. Before Voyager, scientists knew that Enceladus was in Saturn's second outermost ring, ...

Therefore, the rate of impacts on Titan's surface can inform the rate of water mixed with organic material flowing into the ocean. The researchers found that only around 7,500 kilograms or 16,500 ...