Evidence is increasing that liquid water and other building blocks for life exists on two icy moons in our solar system, NASA researchers announced.
The exciting new insights, revealed in a Thursday news conference, came from data gathered by the Cassini spacecraft probing Saturn and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Cassini scientists said Saturn's moon Enceladus appears to play host to both liquid water and chemical energy that's required for life to exist, such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen.
Hubble researchers also reported new evidence of what they believe are hydrogen plumes erupting from Jupiter's moon Europa. Read more...
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