Tagged: Enceladus

Saturn’s moons may be younger than the dinosaurs – so could life really exist there? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 30, 2016 •

• astronomy,
• Enceladus,
• Extraterrestrial life,
• Saturn,
• SETI

David Rothery, The Open University Saturn is home to more than 60 moons – from the massive Titan and the crater-riddled Phoebe, to Enceladus with its geysers. Enceladus in particular has been put forward as a good candidate for harbouring microbial life, thanks to its warm internal ocean. After all, if intelligent life … Read More

From bosons to Bigfoot: six science mysteries that might be solved in 2016 - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jan 05, 2016 •

• bigfoot,
• bosons,
• camera traps,
• dark matter,
• drones,
• Enceladus,
• gravitational waves,
• Higgs boson,
• juno probe,
• Large Hadron Collider,
• Large Underground Xenon experiment,
• life on mars,
• lux detector,
• science mysteries,
• uavs

Gavin Hesketh, UCL; Louise Gentle, Nottingham Trent University, and Simon Cotton, University of Birmingham From the origin of life to the fate of the universe, there’s plenty scientists simply don’t know. But they are making progress. 2015 has been a great year for science: we’ve seen the agreement of climate deal, pictures of dwarf … Read More