Saturn's moon Enceladus has all the ingredients for life in its icy oceans. But is life there?

A snapshot of Cassini flying through the plumes of Enceladus during its final orbits between April and September 2017

For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know it depends — has been found in a tiny ocean-bearing moon in our solar system.

Scientists combing through data sent home by NASA's Cassini spacecraft nearly 15 years ago said they have found plentiful phosphorus in water geysers that routinely blast into space from Enceladus, a tiny moon of Saturn and one of the most likely places in the solar system where life might exist.