The Latest Breaking News from Saturn

Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune will line up in a magnificent cosmic event this weekend as they will all be visible practically to the naked eye on Saturday

Mercury, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune, and Saturn will line up in the event known as a planetary parade

There's another chance to see five planets lined up in the sky

Free University of Berlin team detects phosphorus in Enceladus, a moon that circles Saturn

Plus, the lauded telescope detected the most extensive spray of water ever seen in space from Saturn's frozen moon

The search for habitable conditions beyond Earth has just become more interesting with the discovery of biologically available phosphorus from one of Saturn’s moons. Phosphorus is the most elusive of the six crucial elements needed for life.

For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know it depends — has been found in a tiny ocean-bearing moon in our solar system.

Enceladus is the tiny moon of Saturn that seems to have it all. Its icy surface is intricately carved by ongoing geological processes. Its icy shell overlies an internal, liquid ocean. There, chemically charged warm water seeps out of the rocky core onto the ocean floor – potentially providing nourishment…

Astronomers have confirmed the presence of phosphates — a crucial ingredient for life — in a plume of icy water gushing out of Saturn's moon Enceladus.