Seemingly sleepy Enceladus — a moon of Saturn’s just a fraction of the size of our own satellite — was barely on the radar of astronomers up until the Cassini mission arrived at the system in 2004. But close flybys in 2005 revealed one of the biggest solar system surprises: plumes of water erupting fromContinue reading “New clues emerge toward possible life on Enceladus”

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