Finding out whether there is actually life beneath that alien ice means we are going to have to send some sort of aquatic spacecraft over there. Astrobiologists from Paris Sciences & Letters University and the University of Arizona led a study recently published in
Nature Astronomy, and while study lead Antonin Affholder believes more investigation is needed here, extraterrestrials shouldn’t be ruled out yet.
“After simulating hydrothermal vents on Enceladus, our results show that the most plausible scenarios correspond to a relatively high dihydrogen concentration in serpentinization fluids, similar to what we have on Earth,” Affholder told SYFY WIRE, “but it is still hard to compare conditions on Earth and Enceladus.”