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Scientists say Saturn’s moon could host alien life

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Enceladus plumes may hold a clear clue to ocean habitability

How can scientists estimate the pH level of Enceladus' subsurface ocean without landing on its surface? This is what a study ...

Experiments bring Enceladus' subsurface ocean into the lab

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...
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Heat leaking from Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus bolsters its case as an abode for life

Excess heat is flowing from the north pole of Enceladus, hinting at a careful energy balance deep that may have kept the subsurface ocean stable over geologically significant timescales, boosting its ...
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Farewell to Saturn’s dead moon Enceladus surprises NASA with snow falling from underground and reopens the search for life

NASA continues to uncover new discoveries wherever it deploys its technology. A few years ago, it discovered that the Cassini ...
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Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has All the Ingredients for Life, We Need to Go There and Find It

At the time of writing, the number of known moons in the solar system reached over 950. Most of them are so savage that there is little chance life as we know it could ever take hold. But there is at ...
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Supercomputer Models Revise Enceladus Ice Loss

How much ice is Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, losing to space when it discharges its interior ocean? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address ...
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Fresh Ocean Spray From Enceladus Reveals Complex Organics

Does Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, contain the ingredients for life as we know it, or even just life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of ...
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New study adds to the possibility of favorable conditions for life at Saturn's moon Enceladus

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.(AP) — Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, bolstering the likelihood that the ocean world may harbor conditions ...
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Inside ESA’s L4 mission to Enceladus

The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing the L4 mission, a combined orbiter and lander spacecraft, targeting Saturn's moon Enceladus for launch around 2042 and arrival in the early 2050s. The ...
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This week in science: A Saturn moon's ocean, chameleon eyes and energy used for AI

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. And we have the show's two hosts here, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hello. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hey. EMILY KWONG, ...
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Looking Inside Icy Moons

Saturn's moon Mimas, just 250 miles wide, could have a liquid water ocean under its outer icy shell, according to new research led by Max Rudolph at UC Davis. If such moons are the right size, water ...