Active Moons In Our Solar System And Beyond – Io, Europa, Enceladus, Triton, and Exomoons
Interior, surface and atmosphere visualisation of Europa, Enceladus, Triton, Io, and exoIo. Best-estimate plume heights are displayed to…
Newly Found Organics in Enceladus’ Plumes
Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed tiger stripes…
NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus
Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast…
Chinese and Spanish scientists tap into salt-laced ice to generate electricity – with a twist
Scientists from China and Spain have discovered that adding salt to ice can enable it to generate electricity,…
Cassini Detects Organic Molecules in Freshly Ejected Ice Grains from Enceladus’ Ocean
Saturn’s moon Enceladus continuously ejects a plume of ice grains and gases originating from its subsurface ocean via…
Ocean on Saturn moon ‘ticks all the boxes’ for life
The ocean hidden under the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus harbours complex organic molecules, a study said…
Europe plans to send life-searching probe to Saturn’s icy moon
The European Space Agency (ESA) has set its sights on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus by announcing a new…
What Webb Is Teaching Us About Our Solar System
Episode description: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is hard at work answering our biggest questions about the birth…