22 June 2020
Icy Pluto may have started off hot with an early ocean
... authors write in their research paper published in Nature Geoscience today. The potential habitability of distant icy worlds increases when subsurface oceans interact with compounds on a sea-floor. Jupiter’s moon Europa – which is larger than Pluto...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
... will help scientists understand what could be happening in similar environments when deep-sea missions to our nearest ocean-worlds get underway. InVADER is also equipped to take pictures and even provide 3-D mapping of its environment to help put...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
...Dawn mission suggests that the rocky-icy body is an ocean world and may have been geologically active in the recent ...life. Still, there are many unknowns when it comes to ocean worlds especially ones under low-gravity conditions like Ceres. What is ...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... is a space systems engineer focusing on GN&C, robotics, and autonomy to enable the in-situ astrobiological exploration of the ocean worlds of the solar system. He is currently working towards a PhD at Bundeswehr University in Munich, Germany, and...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
...? After recreating an environment similar to that of Earth’s primordial ocean in the lab, scientists say yes, it is possible for the... that bodes well for the possibility of a habitable ocean world. "We don't have concrete evidence of life elsewhere...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... developed after it was captured by Neptune; something that so far is believed to be unique among other known ocean worlds. Understanding how interior oceans form is therefore key to the Trident mission. Called Trident for its three-pronged approach...
