Deep-sea microbes could survive on Saturn's icy moon: Study
On recreating an environment similar to Saturn's moon Enceladus in the lab, researchers have found some microbes were able to survive in freezing deep-sea conditions and emit methane gas. Traces of methane along with plumes of water ice and vapour from Enceladus were picked up by the recently terminated Cassini mission. However, it was impossible to find their chemical origin.