On Dec. 25 and 26, a waxing crescent moon will appear close to Saturn in the night sky after sunset, making a beautiful ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

On Christmas night, Jupiter will be one of the brightest objects in the sky — and a  stand-in for the mythical “Christmas ...

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft may upend Titan’s status as an ocean world. But it might still have ...

New research using Cassini data suggests Titan may not have a global ocean, but small warm water pockets hidden deep in its ...

The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

On Dec. 23, 1672, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon. Rhea is made up of rock ...

Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. New research suggests Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth's polar seas instead of a buried ...

Buckle up — it’s time to handle some unstable ground. This morning, the emotional Moon squares verbose Mercury, so words may ...

Learn more about Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and the mysteries that lurk beneath its icy surface.

The findings are based on analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017.