Fertile Frontiers

Alien-life hunters focus on moons in outer solar system

The solar system’s spotted bully and its ringed sidekick are holding some tantalizing treasures in their gravitational clutches. Circling Jupiter and Saturn are more than a hundred moons, including some of the most promising hosts for extraterrestrial life in the solar system.

Some scientists rank the Saturnian moon Enceladus as the best place in the solar system to go looking for alien life-forms.