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Keith Cooper

Saturn's moon Enceladus is shooting out organic molecules that could help create life

An illustration of a gray planet spewing blue water at the south pole.

Complex organic molecules that form part of the chain of chemical reactions that can result in life's building blocks have been found in the watery geysers of Enceladus, almost twenty years after the plumes were first sampled by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Cassini's mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended in 2017, but scientists are still making findings buried deep in its treasure trove of archived data.

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