The pH scale is a measure of how acidic or alkaline something is, 1 being highly acidic, 14 being highly alkaline, and 7 ...

Cassini spacecraft data has been used to create the infrared views of Saturn's moon Enceladus. "Reddish areas indicate fresh ...

But Enceladus is able to host such high amounts of dissolved phosphorus because it has what scientists call a soda ocean. Soda oceans or soda lakes are rich in carbonates — minerals that contain ...

Scientists have long viewed Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which harbors an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell, as one of the best places to search for life beyond Earth.. Now, a new analysis of data ...

Enceladus is one of Saturn's many moons. The tiny icy world has the potential to harbor life and is one of the most intriguing destinations in the solar system.

Enceladus, Hsu said, is now likely the “second-top object for astrobiology interest” – the first being Jupiter’s icy moon and fellow water-world, Europa.

The possibility that Saturn's moon Enceladus could support life has strengthened after researchers determined its ocean is likely 1 billion years old, placing it in the sweet spot.

If Enceladus has had a liquid ocean for billions of years, life would have had the chance to emerge and evolve into a more complex form. In an email interview with Newsweek, ...

Enceladus is one of the best candidates for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Three of Saturn's moons, Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas, are captured in this photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Enceladus is tiny. The main issues with the Orbilander mission concept is that Enceladus is so very small. It’s just 311 miles/500 kilometers in diameter—the same distance from London and ...

It’s official—NASA is being sent to "ice giant" planet Uranus and Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Both are recommended flagship missions in the new Decadal Survey for Planetary Science and ...