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6 ARTICLES

last mo.

New Studies Show Enceladus’ Plume Ice Can Concentrate Ocean Chemistry and Support Microbial Metabolism

Two Science Advances papers link slow freezing and fragmentation of plume droplets to grain-by-grain chemical sorting and show a terrestrial methanogen can grow in an Enceladus-like seawater simulant, a finding that raises the odds of finding concentrated biosignatures.

10 ARTICLES

9mo ago

First Subsurface Lava Tube Detected on Venus in Reprocessed Magellan Radar

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11mo ago

Study Challenges 'Ice Giant' Label for Uranus and Neptune

5 ARTICLES

last yr.

Titan Study Shows Hydrogen Cyanide Mixing With Methane and Ethane in Stable Co-Crystals