Space Daily July 23, 2026 • 13:30

Finding no evidence of life in Enceladus’s ocean could be almost as scientifically important as finding it — because a world with liquid water, internal heat, phosphorus and complex organic chemistry but no detectable biology would suggest that the ingredient - Space Daily

Finding no evidence of life in Enceladus’s ocean could be almost as scientifically important as finding it — because a world with liquid water, internal heat, phosphorus and complex organic chemistry but no detectable biology would suggest that the ingredient - Space Daily

The absence of life on a world with all its ingredients could prove as revolutionary as finding it.

Most missions searching for extraterrestrial life are imagined as quests for a positive result: a cell, a biological molecule or a chemical pattern that cannot be explained without metabolism. At Enc… [+6102 chars]

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