Geyser-like plumes spray out of the south polar region of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, into space. Credit: ESA / Science Office illustration A moon of Saturn has a surprising variety of carbon-based ...

For nearly two decades Enceladus, a 500-kilometer-wide moon of Saturn, has been a top target in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. In 2005, shortly after arriving in orbit around the ringed planet, ...

The researchers recreated Moon-like conditions in the lab by hitting rocks with oxygen and hydrogen particles to see how the Moon's surface would have changed over time.

A fresh look at data collected by NASA's Cassini probe nearly two decades ago has revealed new, complex organic molecules on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus – pointing to tantalizing chemistry taking ...

Anthony Wood joined Space.com in April 2025 after contributing articles to outlets including IGN, New Atlas and Gizmodo. He has a passion for the night sky, science, Hideo Kojima, and human space ...

The Moon has always been a plain, grayscale, landscape. Its plains and craters offer some variety, but the lunar surface blends into a uniform dullness.

Fictional depiction of what blowing up the asteroid could look like. AI-generated image. A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024 YR4 is hurtling through space, and it has our Moon in its sights.

Saturn's moon, Enceladus, could harbour alien life deep within its underground oceans, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, even though the system is young enough that it should still have a ...

The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper ...

Stargazers will be happy to know that October will see the cosmos compensating for a couple of relatively lean months.There will be a whole bunch of celestial bodies to see over the next month, ...

Scientists have discovered hematite, a form of rust, on the Moon's surface due to oxygen from Earth reacting with lunar iron, according to Geophysical Research Letters.