Last year, when the Cassini spacecraft discovered an enormous plume erupting on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, scientists speculated that liquid water lay at shallow depths beneath the icy surface.

How can scientists estimate the pH level of Enceladus' subsurface ocean without landing on its surface? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to address as a team of ...

If life exists on the icy ocean moons of Enceladus and Europa, detectable trace molecules could survive just below their frozen surfaces. The problem, however, is that both Europa and Enceladus are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close up view of an icy moon of saturn showing deep fissures along its surface. New research has revealed the sliding ...

Organic molecules in Enceladus's plumes may form from surface radiation, not its ocean, reshaping how scientists assess the moon's habitability. (Nanowerk News) Organic molecules detected in the ...

Enceladus’s geysers power vast electromagnetic wave systems that redistribute energy throughout Saturn’s magnetosphere.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new model of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus may quell hopes of finding life there. Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, the model explains the most salient ...

Evidence continues to mount that life could theoretically survive in two moons currently orbiting planets in our solar system. Scientists have made a number of discoveries suggesting that Jupiter’s ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus loses ice mass to space by cryovolcanic geyers, and new TACC supercomputer simulations have improved estimates of ice mass loss. These findings help with understanding and ...

"We know that Enceladus' ocean is habitable thanks to Cassini measurements. We know there is liquid water, energy, and the chemicals carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur." When ...

Enceladus’ small size and icy surface is no limitation to its extreme volcanism. Enceladus erupts over 660 pounds of water per second, with jets reaching up to 6,000 miles into space. These massive ...

"Slow rates of amino acid destruction in biological samples under Europa- and Enceladus-like surface conditions bolster the case for future life-detection measurements by lander missions." When you ...