The icy Saturn moon Mimas may be a "stealth" ocean world, according to new research. "In the waning days of NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn, the spacecraft identified a curious libration, or ...
An illustration shows Saturn's moon Mimas with the gas giant and Enceladus in the background. Astronomers have discovered that a tiny moon of Saturn, named Mimas, may harbor a hidden liquid ocean ...
The outer solar system is awash with liquid water. A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, Europa — with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. A ...
One of NASA's latest discoveries could change the definition of what planetary objects aside from Earth will be considered "potentially habitable." Researchers have found that Saturn's tiny, frozen ...
The once-exclusive club of Solar System objects that host oceans is getting increasingly crowded. On Wednesday, Nature released a paper providing evidence that Saturn's moon Mimas has a subsurface ...
The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form—and hope for another spot to search for life. By Shannon Hall / Knowable Magazine Published Aug 10 ...
There's something strange going on below the surface of Saturn's Death Star-looking moon Mimas, a new study suggests. Mimas' rotation and its orbit around Saturn make the moon look like it's rocking ...
This is Mimas, the smallest of Saturn's major moons. Other than its giant impact crater, scientists thought Mimas was a rather boring piece of cold rock. Now, a new study says Mimas is much more ...
There's something strange going on below the surface of Saturn's Death Star-looking moon Mimas, a new study suggests. Mimas' rotation and its orbit around Saturn make the moon look like it's rocking ...
Astronomers have discovered that a tiny moon of Saturn, named Mimas, may harbor a hidden liquid ocean beneath its thick icy shell and may thus have the conditions for habitability. This shocking ...
"If Mimas has an ocean, it represents a new class of small, 'stealth' ocean worlds with surfaces that do not betray the ocean's existence." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
Saturn's moon Mimas is dominated by a huge crater called Herschel that makes the moon look like the Death Star from "Star Wars." This photo was taken Feb. 13, 2010, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Mimas ...