The European Space Agency is planning an ambitious mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, launching in the 2040s. Utilizing an ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is moving forward with a mission to Saturn’s moon Enceladus, one of the most promising places ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

Despite their liquid water and potential for habitability, these moons are very different environments from Earth. On Earth, ...

Rather than flowing magma, geological shifts on icy moons are produced by melting ice. The ice shells coating these moons wax ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover ...

Several small worlds beyond Jupiter are not just frozen rubble. Beneath their shining skins, many hide oceans of liquid water ...

Researchers look into the stresses caused by oceans in the surrounding shells of icy moons, and find that some can release ...

Perseverance's main job is Martian weather forecasting, but its routine solar scans on November 25 unexpectedly detected the ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.