A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

New research suggests Enceladus’ water plumes may originate from a slushy ice layer rather than its underground ocean.

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long fascinated scientists due to its dramatic geysers, which blast plumes of water vapor, ice, and organic molecules into space. These eruptions, first detected by ...

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially discovering life as we know it? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, has been monitored by the Cassini Spacecraft, allowing NASA to learn more about its icy surface and oceans beneath the ice.

This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers from the United Kingdom investigated how life that might exist in the depths of ...

The plumes are the result of Saturn's gravity stretching and squeezing Enceladus' innards like putty, injecting energy into the moon's interior to keep water liquid in a global ocean and ...

The research looked at the oceans on one of Saturn's icy moons, called Enceladus, and found that the physics of its ocean could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from being found. Enceladus' ocean ...

A large subsurface ocean, spanning approximately 20 million km 3, has commonly been thought to be the primary source of Enceladus's geysers, erupting through fractures in the crust. This is due to ...

The new study focused on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn that sprays its ocean water into space through cracks in its icy surface. Using computer models similar to those used to study Earth's oceans ...

challenging the idea that the eruptions are directly linked to the deep subsurface ocean — and, ultimately, that Enceladus could support life (as we know it, at least). The team believes there ...