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Saturn’s moon Enceladus has phosphorous. The finding came from recently analyzed icy particles emitted from the natural satellite’s ocean plumes, detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The discovery means Enceladus has all the chemical building blocks for life as we know it on Earth. “This is the final one saying, ‘Yes, Enceladus does have all of the ingredients that typical Earth life would need to live and that the ocean there is habitable for life as we know it,” Morgan Cable, astrobiology chemist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told The...

The finding was based on a review of data collected by NASA's Cassini probe, and was published Wednesday in the prestigious journal Nature

The EELS "robot snake" is designed to autonomously explore otherwise inaccessible locations on Earth, Mars and beyond.

Four of the largest Uranian Moons—Titania, Oberon, Umbriel and Ariel—have subsurface oceans, according to a new study.

Bob McDonald's blog: If there is life around our sun, we're more likely to find it inside other bodies in the solar system than on any surface