Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system, following Mars and Jupiter. "Scientists have long believed that outside of ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have recreated the extreme conditions found on the frozen moons of the outer solar system and uncovered something ...

Signs of life could survive on the icy surfaces of Saturn's and Jupiter's moons, Enceladus and Europa, despite harsh radiation bombardment from the sun and supernovas.

According to this study, Enceladus is made up successively of a rocky core with a radius of 185 km, and an internal ocean approximately 45 km deep, isolated from the surface by an ice shell with a ...

NASA scientists believe they could detect signs of life less than an inch below the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Evidence continues to mount ...

According to recent experiments, evidence of alien life could be preserved on the surface of Enceladus, and just a few inches below the surface of Europa.

With these, the team used the age of the ice surface and the radiation environment at Europa and Enceladus to calculate the drilling depth and locations where 10% of the amino acids would survive ...

GREENBELT, Md. – Cracks in the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus open and close daily under the pull of Saturn’s gravity, according to new calculations by NASA-sponsored researchers.

How deep will future landers to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, and Saturn’s moon, Enceladus have to dig to find organic molecules aka the building blocks of life? This is what a recent study published in ...

Ice grains on Europa float up above the surface, and some scientists think Europa may even have geysers like Enceladus that shoot grains into space.