Enceladus was first discovered in 1789 by the British astronomer, ... Ironically named after a Giant in Greek mythology, Enceladus remained an elusive speck for almost 200 years after its discovery.

Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn—The Geyser Moon, with its highly reflective surface and almost crater-less terrain, this icy moon is one of the many wonders of the solar system. In fact, ...

Although Enceladus was a giant in Greek mythology, the IAU decreed its features must be named after characters and places from The Arabian Nights, and not just any translation, but Richard Francis ...

Enceladus, named after a giant in Greek mythology, is the sixth-largest of Saturn's many moons and spans approximately 310 miles in diameter, according to NASA.

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long fascinated scientists due to its dramatic geysers, which blast plumes of water vapor, ice, and organic molecules into space. These eruptions, first detected ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus has been shrouded in mystery since its discovery in the late 18th century, but now researchers believe they have solved what causes the moon's "tiger stripes," according to ...

Scientists have long viewed Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which harbors an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell, as one of the best places to search for life beyond Earth. Now, a new analysis of data ...

Enceladus, Hsu said, is now likely the “second-top object for astrobiology interest” – the first being Jupiter’s icy moon and fellow water-world, Europa.

To see if any life forms on Earth could survive on Enceladus, the authors turned to three types of microbes known as methanogenic archaea. These are single-celled organisms that grow in the ...

A team of researchers has found that it would require more than 100 flybys through a geyser plume from Enceladus with an orbiting spacecraft to capture signs of a cell — a crucial indicator to ...

There's some reason to think that Enceladus might have a porous core. Based on the moon's total mass and the knowledge that much of it is water, we can make some informed guesses about what its ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus is a relatively small body, only a bit over 500km across. That's not big enough to have retained much heat from its formation, nor to have a huge cache of radioactive ...