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Enceladus

Illustration: Europa Clipper above Europa, with Jupiter in background
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Researchers find a way to detect signs of extraterrestrial life in a single grain of ice

by Alan Boyle on March 22, 2024March 23, 2024 at 8:34 am

Scientists have verified that a method to look for cellular life on Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, just might work. The technique could be put to the test in… Read More

Illustration: Cutaway view of Enceladus with water spewing from surface
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Scientists trace phosphates to Enceladus, boosting outlook for life on Saturn’s moon

by Alan Boyle on June 14, 2023June 14, 2023 at 8:59 am

Phosphorus, an essential ingredient for life as we know it, has been detected for the first time in water samples that can be traced back to Enceladus, an ice-covered moon… Read More

Enceladus plumes

Astrobiology takes the spotlight: Saturn’s moon Enceladus may offer a ‘free lunch’

by Alan Boyle on June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 at 11:56 am

The sea that lies beneath the icy surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, could provide even more fuel for extraterrestrial organisms than previously thought. That’s the upshot of a… Read More

Europa ice-penetrating probe
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Astrobiologist lays out undersea scenario for intelligent life on alien water worlds

by Alan Boyle on August 22, 2018August 22, 2018 at 7:06 pm

Instead of cave dwellers gathered around a campfire, roasting mastodon meat, imagine an octopus tribe floating around a hydrothermal vent at the seafloor, boiling lobsters. That’s the scenario sketched out… Read More

Carolyn Porco
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Breakthrough Discuss turns spotlight on search for life elsewhere in solar system

by Alan Boyle on April 13, 2018September 13, 2020 at 11:15 am

STANFORD, Calif. — Are there microbes falling in the snows of Enceladus? Could a drone fly to biological hot spots on Titan? Is life floating in the sulfurous clouds of… Read More

Oliver Morton and Yuri Milner
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Billionaire Yuri Milner discusses his plan to look for life on Saturn moon – and his Russian connections

by Alan Boyle on November 9, 2017November 10, 2017 at 10:11 am

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner today laid out his vision to send the first privately funded interplanetary space mission to look for life at the Saturnian moon Enceladus — but first he… Read More

Saturn and its rings
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Hours before its doom, NASA’s Cassini probe takes its parting shots at Saturn

by Alan Boyle on September 14, 2017September 15, 2017 at 7:58 am

The final pictures from NASA’s 13-year-long Cassini mission at Saturn are flowing in – and they’re good to the last drop. Or even better, good to the last moonset. Raw images,… Read More

Cassini's end
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Cassini orbiter’s team turns Saturn crash into cause for celebration – and for science

by Alan Boyle on September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 at 4:10 am

Twenty years after its launch to Saturn, NASA has set the Cassini orbiter on a course for certain destruction on Friday – but there’s a decidedly positive spin to the… Read More

Enceladus plumes
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Enceladus’ plumes suggest that Saturn moon’s ocean could support microbial life

by Alan Boyle on April 13, 2017April 14, 2017 at 9:08 am

Scientists have detected molecules of hydrogen in plumes of watery material erupting from cracks in the ice of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn – and that suggests an ocean beneath… Read More

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