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Finding no evidence of life in Enceladus’s ocean could be almost as scientifically important as finding it — because a world with liquid water, internal heat, phosphorus and complex organic chemistry

The absence of life on a world with all its ingredients could prove as revolutionary as finding it. Most missions searching for extraterrestrial life are imagined as quests for a positive result: a cell, a biological molecule or a chemical pattern that cannot be explained without metabolism. At Enceladus, however, a sufficiently rigorous failure to... [6030 chars]

Finding no evidence of life in Enceladus’s ocean could be almost as scientifically important as finding it — because a world with liquid water, internal heat, phosphorus and complex organic chemistry

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