The European Space Agency is planning an ambitious mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, launching in the 2040s. Utilizing an ...

Europe is quietly positioning itself to attempt one of the most audacious missions in planetary exploration: a dedicated ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is moving forward with a mission to Saturn’s moon Enceladus, one of the most promising places ...

Scientists could one day find traces of life on Enceladus, an ocean-covered moon orbiting Saturn. NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY-SA Saturn has 146 confirmed moons – more than any other planet in the solar ...

Ice grains from Enceladus reveal the richest mix of organics yet, offering the strongest clues that the moon’s hidden ocean ...

Cutting-edge simulations show that Enceladus’ plumes are losing 20–40% less mass than earlier estimates suggested. The new models provide sharper insights into subsurface conditions that future ...

Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water from a ...

Experts have discovered that the moon is leaking heat from both of its poles, which they say indicates that Enceladus could ...

"We know that some microbes on Earth can tolerate the range of pH found on Enceladus." NASA's Cassini spacecraft has flown through the plumes of water vapor spewing out from the ocean inside Saturn's ...

Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, has long been known to possess an interior ocean of liquid water, but the question as to whether this ocean possesses the building blocks of life has eluded scientists. A ...

If you’re hoping to find life elsewhere in our solar system, there are few better places to look than an icy moon orbiting a gas giant. Way out in the cosmic suburbs, well beyond the Sun’s habitable ...

A key chemical building block of life has been found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Phosphorus was detected in salty ice grains that were released into space by plumes that erupt between the cracks of ...