What information can the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus reveal to scientists about its internal chemical composition and potential signs of life? A recent study presented at the joint meeting of ...

Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through ...

China has set its sights on one of the most promising destinations in the search for life beyond Earth: Saturn’s icy moon ...

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long fascinated scientists with its spectacular water plumes, which NASA’s Cassini spacecraft once revealed to contain organic molecules. Many hoped these molecules ...

The artistic depiction released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows the surface plumes erupting from Enceladus, with the moon and its satellite Titan in the sky, and the distant Sun in the ...

Simple organics: Amino acids, some of which were delivered to Earth via meteorites and comets, are introduced to observe whether they could concentrate within mineral membranes. Previous studies ...

Astronomers have reported the discovery of an unlikely rainbow in the Solar System, showing that whenever there’s a bit of precipitation and light, rainbows appear. The celestial rainbow appears above ...

Mars, Europa and Enceladus are the three most promising locations in the solar system to search for life living off cosmic rays.

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years ...

Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through exposure to radiation on Saturn's icy moon, rather than originating from ...