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Enceladus

Enceladus’s oceans may be the right saltiness to sustain life

20 July 2022

The geometry of the icy shell around Saturn’s moon Enceladus suggests that the ocean beneath is a little less salty than Earth’s oceans and could potentially sustain life
This high resolution image of the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, reveals a surface criss-crossed by multiple sets of ridges and fractures

We now know how the mysterious ridges covering Europa’s surface formed

19 April 2022

Jupiter’s moon Europa is covered in weird pairs of ridges, and they may come from the refreezing of shallow pockets of liquid water hiding all over its icy shell

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