Two new studies follow ocean ingredients into plume ice and test methane production in a laboratory seafloor analogue. Both refine how scientists could search for life.

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A head-on collision with another galaxy billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented the Milky Way’s disk, according to new supercomputer simulations that reveal how violent mergers can leave spiral galaxies looking surprisingly normal today.

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Titan’s resources could one day make Saturn’s largest moon a major outpost for deep space exploration. Titan is one of the few places in the Solar System where the landscape can feel strangely familiar and completely alien at the same time. Saturn’s largest moon has weather, clouds, rain, lakes, and seas, but its cycle is [...]

My biblical creation model of the solar system expects the presence of icy materials forming the outer planets and celestial bodies. Recent findings of water and ice in bodies like Ceres, and moons of Jupiter and Saturn support this theory, confirming the Genesis account of creation.