Scientists put an Earth microbe in a lab-made version of the alkaline ocean beneath the ice of a moon circling Saturn. It ...

These are water vapor geysers, erupting from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Scientists believe they originate in a global ocean below the moon’s icy surface. A new model suggests that ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study accepted to Icarus hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

New studies show that Enceladus plume ice can separate and concentrate ocean compounds into individual grains, while microbes ...

Swimming in the sea of the Saturnian moon Enceladus might be like taking a dip in household ammonia. An ocean hidden beneath the moon’s icy crust is highly alkaline, similar to soda lakes on Earth, ...

Scientists have inferred that a soda or alkaline ocean (containing NaHCO3 and/or Na2CO3) inside of Enceladus interacts geochemically with a rocky core. Geochemical modeling and laboratory experiments ...

Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support life ...