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 ...

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 ...

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

There are several factors about Enceladus that are similar to Earth that lead scientists to believe life could be supported there. Produced by Emma Fierberg. Original Reporting by Jessica Orwig.

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

Our fascination with alien life took off after Galileo’s new telescope ... but on the distant moons Europa (which orbits Jupiter) and Enceladus (a satellite of Saturn). Both harbour a liquid ...

Anywhere where water exists in liquid form, there could also be life. That’s why Saturn’s moon Enceladus is particularly interesting for researchers. From 2004 to 2017 the Cassini space probe gathered ...

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 ...

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 ...