How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially discovering life as we know it? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

As the search for life continues, future space missions will need to be extra careful when sampling Enceladus’s surface waters." This study comes as the 2022 Planetary Science Decadal Survey discussed ...

Description: ASTROBi is developing a low-cost astrobiology mission to Enceladus, a moon of Saturn that is spewing plumes of water into space. The mission will send a small orbiter to fly through the ...

The document builds on the academies' decadal survey, outlining recommended missions for NASA's next New Frontiers program.

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

From a technical point of view, this represents a major challenge. One approach to solving this is the space mission 'EnEx - Enceladus Explorer'. Researchers are currently working on the basis of the ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

One mission in particular, the Enceladus Orbilander, which was a proposed flagship mission that the 2023 Decadal Survey supported, would be able to capture the upper parts of a geyser as it flew ...

Description: Team IICE’s project is to create a proof-of-concept sensor for a mission to Enceladus. Enceladus has large ice geysers that spew microscopic ice particles into the upper atmosphere. This ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists are beginning to plan a space mission to Saturn's most interesting moon, Enceladus. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Science Scientists are ...