Enceladus has been a popular target for the existence of life ever since Cassini first saw plumes of water vapor coming from its south pole back in 2005. Until now, however, it was unclear how those plumes were connected to the potential subsurface ocean. The icy surface is estimated to be...
Based on the helioseismology studies we've done, there is almost certainly NOT a black hole in our Sun. Or if there is, it would need to be exceedingly tiny. So there's no need to pack your bug-out bag for a solar doomsday. But perhaps there are some Hawking stars out there if w...
Someday, a swarm of tiny robots the size of cellphones could whisk through the water beneath the miles-thick icy shell ofJupiter’s moonEuropaorSaturn’smoon Enceladus, looking for evidence of alien life. Packed inside a narrow ice-melting probe that would tunnel through the frozen crust,...
” said SwRI Senior Research Scientist Dr. Christopher Glein, another coauthor. “We must be cautious, but I find it exhilarating to ponder whether there might be strange forms of life that take advantage of these sources of energy that appear to be fundamental to the w...
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus could theoretically be home to methane-producing(产甲烷的) alien life,NASA said. Researchers made the announcement based on data from 2015, when the spacecraft Cassini detected the presence of hydrogen during a flight through a cloud of gas and ice erupting from Ence...
The research about Enceladus, published in the journalPNAS, shows that there seems to be dissolved phosphorus in the moon’s ocean, which is an important ingredient for life. It is used in the creation of RNA and DNA, is found in cell membranes, and is found within our bodies in out bo...
The fact that discussions about terraforming often avoid addressing ethical considerations related to potential Martian life is a cause for concern. It suggests that the drive to transform Mars for human habitation might be overshadowing the potential impact on indigenous life. This lack of engagement ...
That timeline "would be fine with us — to be able to get this ready in the next decade to push there," Oleson said. Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter ...
There's liquid on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. But something's missing and scientists are confused Alien life could exist on Saturn's big moon Titan — but finding it will be tough NASA's Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon...
Researchers want to confirm a very solid case for habitability by finding sulfur and phosphorus on Enceladus, as well as narrowing down the pH (potential of hydrogen) and reinforcing previous measurements. The second step would be looking for signs of life by flying a spectrometer through the plu...