March 6 for the liftoff of Artemis 2, which will send four astronauts on a trip around the moon. No people have been beyond low ...

At a glance, Saturn’s rings appear calm and pristine when observed from afar. These rings are quite narrow and consist mainly ...

"Uranus's magnetosphere is one of the strangest in the solar system," Paola Tiranti, a researcher at Northumbria University in the U.K., said in a statement. "It's tilted and offset from the planet's ...

This is the first observational evidence that re-entering space debris leaves a detectable, human-caused chemical fingerprint ...

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...

Scientists have discovered that Saturn's moon Enceladus creates a massive electromagnetic wake, revealing its major influence ...

With Area 51 ruled out by President Obama, where might aliens really be hiding? Scientists have now revealed the best candidates.

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...

Enceladus’s geysers power vast electromagnetic wave systems that redistribute energy throughout Saturn’s magnetosphere.

Before plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017, the Cassini spacecraft made a series of daring close passes between the planet and its rings. During those final orbits, its instruments collected ...

Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini's 13-year mission expanded our understanding of ...

How can Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, influence its much larger parent planet? This is what a recent study published in the ...