It’s official: NASA put forward a “far-fetched” hypothesis in 2004 about an icy moon, and confirmation has finally arrived that fits all the pieces together

I'm picturing the thermal vents on Enceladus teeming with the kind of life we have in our own deep oceans, near our own thermal vents, and it's a great image. Will still be years – decades even before we're in a position to test this hypothesis, but it's so easy to imagine.