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 ...

In the race to understand the potential habitability of Saturn's icy and active moon, Enceladus, scientists could have a newfound understanding of the moon's defining stripes and eruptions ...

Enceladus’ south pole plume produces two peaks over the course of the moon’s 33-hour orbit. One theory was that the tiger-stripe faults open and close, allowing varying amounts of material to ...

Brightly reflective Enceladus appears above the center of the image. (Reuters file photo) Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus appears to have the ingredients for life, reported Space.

Saturn has 146 confirmed moons– more than any other planet in the solar system – but one called Enceladus stands out. It appears to have the ingredients for life. From 2004 to 2017, Cassini– a joint ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has geysers shooting tiny grains of ice into space. These grains could hold traces of life − but researchers need the right tools to tell.

NASA scientists found more compelling evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus may be a habitable world. They concluded the ocean moon harbors hydrogen cyanide, a critical molecule for life.

Suddenly, Enceladus transformed from an odd, slightly puzzling snowball to one of the most exciting places for astrobiologists. That’s because where there’s water on Earth, there’s life.

The interior ocean discovered by Cassini has made Enceladus - about one-seventh the size of Earth's moon and the sixth largest among Saturn's 146 known natural satellites - a prime candidate in ...

Enceladus is a tiny (310-mile-wide, or 500-kilometer-wide) moon orbiting Saturn, the great ringed gas giant of our solar system.

High concentrations of phosphorus, an essential element for all biological processes on Earth, have been detected in ice crystals spewed from the interior ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus, adding ...

Enceladus isn’t the only icy world that’s thought to harbor hidden seas. Scientists say that Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, appears to have an ocean that’s up to 10 times deeper ...