In the coming weeks, NASA's Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter's moon Europa. The icy moon could ...

And it very nearly did not happen. That's the story I want to tell here.

"The most exciting prospect at the (Uranian) moons is that they could still host subsurface oceans at present.” ...

E uropa, a moon of Jupiter, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, have evidence of oceans beneath their ice crusts. A NASA experiment suggests that if these oceans support life, signatures of that life ...

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Saturn’s moon Enceladus appears to have a greater range of complex organic molecules than previously thought, increasing the likelihood of chemical reactions that produce the building blocks of ...

BLG-0414, a faraway planet orbiting a white dwarf, which offers a glimpse into Earth's potential future in 8 billion years.

Scientists have inferred that a soda or alkaline ocean (containing NaHCO3 and/or Na2CO3) inside of Enceladus interacts geochemically with a rocky core. Geochemical modeling and laboratory ...

NASA is set to launch the Europa Clipper mission, aimed at studying Jupiter's moon Europa for potential signs of alien life.

around a hundred red giant stars—some of the oldest stars in our galaxy—some of which appear to pre-date the Milky Way's collision with another small galaxy called the Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage.

July 16, 2024 — A new study of radar experiment data from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has yielded fresh insights related to the makeup and activity of the liquid hydrocarbon seas near ...

For the first time, NASA is journeying to this mysterious moon to determine if it might be able to host alien life.