Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to ...

KEY FINDINGS Europa has long stood at the center of humanity’s search for life beyond Earth, its cracked ice shell and hidden ocean making it one of the solar system’s most compelling worlds. Now, as ...

In a discovery that opens a rare observational window into moon formation, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a carbon-rich disk of dust and gas around a young exoplanet over 600 ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

Saturn's moon Mimas, just 250 miles wide, could have a liquid water ocean under its outer icy shell, according to new research led by Max Rudolph at UC Davis. If such moons are the right size, water ...

By using the Deep Sky Network (DSN) tracking system, NASA was able to measure the Doppler shift of the radio signals from Cassini as it orbited Saturn and flew past Titan. These shifts allowed ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...