Scientists discovered a crucial element for life gushing out of Saturn's icy ocean moon

Silhouette of a dark planet spraying a stram of icy blue particles into space

Scientists have found another clue that the ocean beneath one of Saturn's moons may be capable of supporting life.

An international team discovered signs of sodium phosphates, a salt sometimes used in deli meat here on Earth, in a plume of ice shot out from a subsurface ocean on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.