What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

NASA just made a discovery that could change everything: an underground ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. With the potential ...

For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know it depends — has been found in a tiny ocean-bearing moon in our solar system.

Read: There’s hope for life on Europa, a distant moon. Glein and his team say that Enceladus’s subsurface ocean might have a phosphorus concentration 100 times higher than that of the oceans ...

Phosphorus, a key element for life, has been detected in the ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which suggests the ocean’s moon could be habitable. CNN values your feedback 1.

The moon Enceladus shoots giant plumes of its ocean into space. Planetary scientists suspect this briny sea could be habitable , meaning it potentially harbors conditions that support life.

Phosphorus, a necessary component of DNA and other biological molecules, is present on Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus. ... Saturn’s moon Enceladus might not seem like a hospitable place for life.

We've yet to encounter any Martians on the dry, dusty world next door and it increasingly seems the dark, ice-covered seas of Saturn's moon Enceladus might be a better bet for finding life.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Signs Of Fertility: On Enceladus, a Small Ocean Moon of Saturn, a Poison Gas Points to ...

A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa—with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. A subsurface sea on Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...

Phosphorus, a key element for life, has been detected in the ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which suggests the ocean’s moon could be habitable. CNN values your feedback 1.