17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... isn't just a key to solar system science - it's a whole keyring: a captured Kuiper Belt object that evolved, a potential ocean world with active plumes, an energetic ionosphere and a young, unique surface,” Mitchell concludes. Trident is one of four...
05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
... on the surface of an icy satellite is difficult. Further more, their origin on Rhea would require the presence of an internal ocean layer or exogenic delivery by micro-meteoroids and/or asteroids that contain chlorine. Chlorine-based salts have been...
07 July 2021
Methane detected on Enceladus could be a sign of life, study shows
...icy moon appears to be producing too much methane in its ocean – a sign that could indicate microbes are feeding on vents...Obviously, we are not concluding that life exists in Enceladus' ocean," Ferriere says but we can't discard the 'life hypothesis' ...
14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
... billion (£1.4 billion) mission, is not seeking to detect actual life but it could help determine whether conditions on hidden oceans on each of the moons have at least a chance of supporting simple microbial organisms. The Ariane 5 launcher did not...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... of State John Hay once famously said: “The Mediterranean is the ocean of the past, the Atlantic is the ocean of the present, and the Pacific is the ocean of the future.” And over time the global economy has expanded...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...a crew of astronauts and scientists discover incredible extremophiles - which looked like aliens - whilst studying the depths of oceans in submersibles. It was then that I realised we still have much to learn about the limits of life in general - and...
