Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

Planetary scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have published two new studies in Science Advances with promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons. New evidence indicates that Enceladus might be more supportive of life than once assumed. In fact, spacecrafts already in planning could be used to identify evidence of life there much easier than previously thought, should it exist.

A photograph of the icy moon Enceladus taken by the space probe Cassini. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute