The building blocks of life can form rapidly around young stars
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Signs of life may exist on the solar system’s moons Enceladus and Europa
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Saturn’s ocean moon Titan may not be able to support life after all
Titan’s underground ocean, and similar oceans inside other icy outer moons Solar systemcould lack the organic chemistry necessary for lifeaccording to new astrobiological research. There …
‘Magical islands’ floating on Saturn’s moon Titan could be a honeycomb shaped snow
The floating “magic islands” on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may finally have a scientific explanation. Scientists believe they are honeycomb-shaped clumps of glacial snow. The …
Finding life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be easier than we thought
New research suggests that there are places on the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus where spacecraft could land to find amazing traces of the key …