Mimas’s moments of inertia were previously probed 2 by looking at rocking motions, known as librations, that the moon makes as it is tugged by Saturn’s gravity.

There’s a newfound ocean in the outer Solar System, and it’s in a very surprising place 1. Mimas, a mid-sized moon of Saturn, turns out to have an ocean beneath its icy surface — despite ...

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 ...

A deep ocean exists beneath the icy, cratered surface of Saturn’s moon Mimas, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission.

A new study of Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas finds evidence of a young, underground ocean that may be hospitable to early forms of life. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Mimas looks much like our Moon, with a heavily cratered surface. It didn’t host any crisscrossing lines or broken pieces like Europa. And it certainly wasn’t spewing geysers like Enceladus.

Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ago, making Mimas a ...

Astronomers have made a shock discovery that Saturn's moon Mimas seems to have a liquid ocean beneath its surface, potentially redefining our search for life on alien moons.

Mimas is roughly 2,000 times smaller than Earth's Moon, but scientists say it could hold the basic ingredients for life. (NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institue via Reuters) ...

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 ...

An illustration shows Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas with the gas giant and Enceladus in the background. — Nasa/File Scientists have found evidence that Mimas, a tiny moon of Saturn, might ...