What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that hovered around 0°C. This stable, warmer temperature could have served as a ...

Titan’s similarities to early Earth provide a compelling backdrop for the study of prebiotic chemistry, potentially offering an analog for the origins of life on our own planet. Cassini also revealed ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans ...

We should be looking for places where life might exist or might have gone extinct. That would include the subsurface of Mars and the ocean moons in the outer solar system, including Europa, Enceladus, ...

The final snap was of Saturn itself, even capturing where the spacecraft would ultimately plunge to its final destination. Explaining that impressive final photo, NASA said: "This monochrome view is ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...