Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long fascinated scientists due to its dramatic geysers, which blast plumes of water vapor, ice, and organic molecules into space. These eruptions, first detected by ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these extraterrestrial waters directly. A new study focusing on Enceladus ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus may hide life, but its geysers might not erupt from a deep ocean. Instead, salty ice pockets melt ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers from the United Kingdom investigated how life that might exist in the depths of ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Aliens could be lurking in hard-to-reach ... and found that the physics of its ocean could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from being found. Enceladus' ocean forms layers that "dramatically ...

The dwarf planet Ceres and the Saturn moon Enceladus both feature salty brines ... Both are contenders for possible alien life. The Bennu discoveries are another point in their favor.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a potential home for life in our solar system. In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft first discovered towering plumes of water vapor erupting from ...