Evidence continues to mount that life could theoretically survive in two moons currently orbiting planets in our solar system. Scientists have made a number of discoveries suggesting that Jupiter’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists could one day find traces of life on Enceladus, an ocean-covered moon orbiting Saturn. NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY-SA ...

Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through exposure to radiation on Saturn's icy moon, rather than originating from ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study accepted to Icarus hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

"We know that Enceladus' ocean is habitable thanks to Cassini measurements. We know there is liquid water, energy, and the chemicals carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur." When ...

What lifeforms could potentially exist within the ocean of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

What can the plumes of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, teach scientists about the latter’s internal chemistry and potential for life? This is what a recent study presented at the Joint Meeting of the ...

New supercomputer simulations from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) based on the Cassini space probe's data have found improved estimates of ice mass Enceladus is losing to space. These ...

Enceladus’ small size and icy surface is no limitation to its extreme volcanism. Enceladus erupts over 660 pounds of water per second, with jets reaching up to 6,000 miles into space. These massive ...

Organic molecules in Enceladus's plumes may form from surface radiation, not its ocean, reshaping how scientists assess the moon's habitability. (Nanowerk News) Organic molecules detected in the ...