Scientists already believe that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s icy moons, could be a good place to look for alien life. New research has strengthened this idea by finding complex organic molecules in the icy plumes coming from its underground ocean.
These findings come from data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. The spacecraft detected organic compounds that had not been seen before. These compounds seem to come from ice particles ejected from the ocean beneath Enceladus’s frozen surface.