They’re over the moon about the discovery.
Scientists have discovered fresh signs that Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could potentially house alien life deep within its subterranean seas, per a groundbreaking new study in the journal Nature Astronomy.
A team from the University of Stuttgart in Germany came upon this alleged extraterrestrial evidence by analyzing tiny grains of ice that are being spouted into space through cracks in Enceladus’ desolate-seeming surface. Using decades-old data gathered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the researchers discovered that the ice granules harbored complex molecules that suggest that Saturn’s sixth-largest moon could “tick all the boxes” for harboring life.
“There are many possible pathways from the organic molecules we found in the Cassini data to potentially biologically relevant compounds, which enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable,” said astrobiologist Nozair Khawaja, who led the research, ScienceAlert reported.
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