Um....maybe. Probably not, though. From 'fake news" which interestingly enough is still not behind a paywall. Key building block of life found on ocean world orbiting Saturn | CNN They say: Of the six elements required for life—carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur—phosphorus is by far the least common hereabouts, but not we've learned that phosphorus is present in the other thing necessary for life - liquid water. Like our own world, Enceladus is both internally and externally heated. It's an ice-ball, but geysers indicate that beneath the ice there is water and with all due respects to Dr. Ryland Grace in Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary" we still believe here on this rock that you need liquid water for life. There are still problems to overcome for 'life out there'...out THERE. Saturn, unlike Mars has a magnetosphere, but it's sixth largest moon does not. Enceladus is also quite small, and so there's not much gravity there. Still... I think it's worth going there to see id we can extend the 'Goldilocks' zone a wee bit......
Life on Earth likely started at a deep ocean thermal vent far from the sun, with plenty of heat. Such could exist on the floors of these moons', Jupiter has a similar one, oceans.
Might as well link to the real thing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05987-9 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-cassini-data-reveals-building-block-for-life-in-enceladus-ocean While people may feel motivated to cudgel CNN as fake, we are not to discuss such motivations here.
