Mission accomplished for space telescope Gaia
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
A planet on the edge: are Saturn’s rings older than they look?
Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...
A jumping robot could leap over Enceladus' geysers
Locomotion makes things move, and certain forms of locomotion make them move better than others. Those more effective types ...
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Challenges in Searching for Life in Alien Waters: The Enceladus Problem
Could finding life in alien oceans be harder than previously thought? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes | Space ...
Could Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Be Hiding Clues to Alien Life?
Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...
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Researchers Pour Cold Water on Attempts to Detect Aqueous Alien Life on Enceladus as New Difficulties Emerge
New research suggests it is unlikely NASA’s plans to obtain samples from Enceladus' liquid oceans will provide clear evidence ...
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Enceladus’ hidden oceans: Why finding alien life may be harder than we thought
Scientists searching for life beyond Earth often look to ocean worlds like Enceladus, one of Saturn’s icy moons. Enceladus ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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NASA’s Secret Ocean Mission
and NASA is diving into Earth’s hadal zones to uncover secrets that might help us explore alien oceans on Europa and Enceladus. Could deep-sea creatures hold the key to understanding ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
Jupiter's moon, Europa, and Saturn's moon, Enceladus, also beckon as enticing water worlds. Meanwhile, NASA has core samples awaiting pickup at Mars, but their delivery is on hold while the space ...