Saturn’s moon Titan has many of the ingredients we think are necessary for life. However, a new study argues the separations ...

What kind of mission would be best suited to sample the plumes of Saturn's ocean world, Enceladus, to determine if this ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Algorithms have been developed to detect biochemical signatures of life on icy ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus. This method uses mass spectrometry to ...

Not at some point in history, as with Mars, but today. Europa, which orbits Jupiter, and Enceladus and Titan, Saturnian moons, are targets of the next great search for life. NASA has been filling ...

Enceladus may also be an easier place to operate a spacecraft—the region around Europa is crackling with intense radiation. Some scientists are therefore advocating a return to Saturn’s moons ...

Europa and Enceladus – moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respectively – appear to have large oceans of water under a thick crust of ice that could potentially harbour organic molecules, the ...

Enceladus is one of few locations in the Solar System with liquid water, along with Earth and Jupiter's moon Europa, making it a target of interest for astrobiologists. The new research could ...

But in the decades that followed, new discoveries—volcanoes on Io, a liquid ocean on Europa, and nitrogen geysers ... Porco makes the case that Saturn’s moon Enceladus—with its plumes ...

On October 10, Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The icy moon could potentially host alien life – and there’s only one way to find out.