Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

Chemical traces and microbes could break down or transform as they rise, making them unrecognizable by the time they reach ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these extraterrestrial waters ...

Asteroid Bennu’s dust reveals amino acid precursors and ancient water traces, fueling hopes that Saturn’s moon Enceladus and ...

One of Saturn’s many moons, Enceladus, might look like a frozen wasteland, but astronomers are now saying it has all of the building blocks for life. It’s an ocean moon, though all of its surface ...

In the race to understand the potential habitability of Saturn's icy and active moon, Enceladus, scientists could have a ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

When searching for alien life, it’s not unusual to use Earth as a test bed for theories and even practice runs. Perhaps one ...

Most likely, the first alien life we discover will be hidden beneath miles of ocean on a distant world like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus. That's why the best way to search for ...

That is why astrobiologists are increasingly turning their eyes toward icy bodies like the Jovian moons of Europa and Ganymede, Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus, Uranus' moon Miranda and the ...