New insights into ‘ocean worlds’ in our solar system

Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and other “ocean worlds” in our solar system and beyond. Scientists announce that a form of chemical energy that life can feed on appears to exist on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and researchers also report additional evidence of plumes erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa.