On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its dive ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small icy world in orbit around Saturn is emerging as one of the most compelling ...

Is there life on Saturn's giant moon, Titan? The only world in the solar system other than Earth with weather and liquid on its surface, Titan has long been on a shortlist of places that could host ...

Life on Earth can be found in the strangest of places, from tens of thousands of metres in the sea to a bubbling tar pit in Trinidad. But scientists have suggested that life – alien life – could be ...