The faraway moon has 'a slushy high-pressure ice layer' similar to the melting Arctic that could hide extraterrestrial life.

Saturn's moon, Enceladus, could harbour alien life deep within its underground oceans, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Although the moon may appear barren, near the South Pole, tiny ...

Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn's largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush.

NASA launched Europa Clipper to see if Jupiter's moon Europa could host alien life. Scientists think Europa contains a vast saltwater ocean deep beneath its surface. A NASA director said the mission ...

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From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Two ice worlds, Pluto and Europa, are closer to being explored by robotic spacecraft, and could be our best bets for finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Both of these ice-covered worlds ...

Cassini narrow-angle camera image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. There are complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, ...

Enceladus has a surface temperature of below - 200 degrees but is thought of having a large hot sub-surface ocean that shoots up plumes of material hundreds of miles up This three-image mosaic handout ...