These "ocean worlds," such as the Jovian moon Europa and the Saturnian moon Enceladus, are not in the "Goldilocks zone" — the optimal distance from a star where liquid water can exist on a world ...
Reasonably confident that he had found a tenth Saturnian moon, he promptly telegraphed news of his discovery to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the world’s clearing house for ...
but also enabled the spacecraft to change its trajectory using the moon’s gravity instead of fuel. To researchers, this Saturnian moon is like a trip back in time to our planet's past that could ...
Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and ...