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, ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a potential home for life in our solar system. In 2005, NASA's Cassini ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus may hide life, but its geysers might not erupt from a deep ocean. Instead, salty ice pockets melt ...

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Given the sampling potential of the plumes, especially with NASA’s Cassini ... (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) “We’ve found that Enceladus’ ocean should behave like oil and water in a jar, with layers that ...

Cassini first discovered evidence of a vast ocean on Enceladus by spotting plumes of water vapor jutting out of Enceladus' surface. Now, the Cassini team has announced that this distant ocean ...

As demonstrated here on Earth, liquid water leads to life as we know it ... by Cassini when the spacecraft flew through Enceladus's plumes included carbon-bearing molecules like formaldehyde ...

They expect sodium carbonates and halite will be found in surface deposits on Ceres, in water plumes from Saturn's satellite Enceladus, and on the surfaces of Jupiter's satellites Europa and Ganymede.

Description: ASTROBi is developing a low-cost astrobiology mission to Enceladus, a moon of Saturn that is spewing plumes of water into space. The mission will send a small orbiter to fly through the ...

This small, icy moon is characterized by its highly reflective white surface and geyser-like jets releasing ice and water vapor ... flew through one of Enceladus's plumes and measured organics ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south pole. Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a ...