Orbilander will orbit Enceladus, essentially to sample its plumes—as ice particles in space—twice per day for 200 days. Then it will land.

Enceladus is a tiny, icy world that scientists best know from NASA's Cassini mission to the Saturn system, which ended in 2017. During Cassini's tenure, the spacecraft determined that the moon has ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

Ever since the Cassini-Huygens mission (2004–2017) studied Saturn and its largest moons, scientists have been eager to get a better look at Enceladus.

To make these lander missions happen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team has been working on a robot that could handle the search for life and already tested it on the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska. ...

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially discovering life as we know it? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Scientists have long viewed Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which harbors an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell, as one of the best places to search for life beyond Earth.. Now, a new analysis of data ...

Enceladus isn’t yet on the list for a future robotic visit, but several mission concepts have been proposed — including Enceladus Orbilander, Moonraker and Breakthrough Enceladus.. Postberg ...

The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) is being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a space mission to Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons known for its icy surface that's the ...

The research used data from the Cassini mission, which performed multiple flybys of Enceladus in the mid-2000s, investigating the water plumes and cryovolcanoes that dot its surface.

Scientists have long viewed Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which harbors an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell, as one of the best places to search for life beyond Earth. Now, a new analysis of data ...

"Similarly, the main subject of our mission, Enceladus, and our goals with it, had to be chosen in accordance with the Decadal Survey, which dictates what missions and priorities space agencies have.