Life on Europa and Other Dark Worlds

Could life exist without photosynthesis? On Earth, nearly every ecosystem ultimately depends on sunlight. Plants capture energy from the Sun, and that energy flows through the entire food chain. But what happens on worlds where sunlight never reaches the surface? In this episode of Entropy Rising, we explore how life might survive without photosynthesis and what alien ecosystems could look like on worlds such as Europa, the ice-covered moon of Jupiter. We discuss chemosynthesis around hydroth...