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Saturn's innermost moon, which resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, may be a "stealth" ocean world, according to new research. Mimas, which is the smallest and closest to Saturn of the ringed ...

Saturn's moons Mimas (right) and Janus appear to hang silently in space as they orbit their ringed parent planet in this stunning photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. The outer edge of ...

Saturn’s moon Mimas earned the nickname “Death Star Moon” because of one enormous crater called Herschel. With steep walls and a central peak, it looks exactly like the superlaser dish from Star Wars.

Recent studies, including research from ScienceDirect, suggest that Saturn’s moon Mimas, known as the “Death Star” moon for its iconic crater, may hide a secret ocean beneath its icy surface. While ...

So were the words uttered by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi when he gazed upon the doomsday weapon, the Death Star, in 1977’s “Star Wars,” later subtitled “Episode IV: A New Hope.” The spherical ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, may harbor a boiling ocean underground. It's also currently ...

A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s inner moons into rings.

Saturn’s “Death Star”-like moon Mimas may have a boiling ocean under its icy shell. The moon pitted with craters—including a very large one, giving it its nickname—may appear to be geologically dead, ...

The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky ...