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 ...

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 ...

French researchers cited observations made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Scientists have discovered a recently formed "force" under one of Saturn's most storied moons. Saturn's Mimas moon resembles ...

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 ...

"We may be seeing Mimas at a particularly interesting time." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earlier this year, researchers ...

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 ...

An uncanny resemblance to the Death Star might not be the only intriguing thing about Saturn’s moon Mimas. It could also harbor a vast ocean of liquid water beneath its pockmarked exterior. A new look ...

Saturn’s moon Mimas may have an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust, suggests a recent study. Icy moons with oceans locked away beneath miles of ice are turning out to be fairly common in our ...

Scientists have discovered a recently formed "force" under one of Saturn's most storied moons. Saturn's Mimas moon resembles the Empire's Death Star station in the "Star Wars" franchise due to its ...

When a scientist discovered surprising evidence that Saturn's smallest, innermost moon could generate the right amount of heat to support a liquid internal ocean, colleagues began studying Mimas' ...