Yet the questions posed by Europa’s story — chiefly, should humanity be given a second chance at sustaining a planet if ...

NASA Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Europa, but it has some stops to make before it investigates the habitability of ...

Maybe Jupiter gave an assist to our existence, but the planet itself is extraordinarily inhospitable to life – at least, life ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...

Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.

Europa's critical environment is its oceans ... Titania and Oberon around Uranus and Triton at Neptune. The dwarf planets Pluto, Charon and Ceres could also have subsurface oceans below a surface ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

The spacecraft is expected to reach Mars in February 2025 and swing back by Earth in 2026 to give Europa Clipper “enough energy to reach Jupiter” using the planets' gravity, NASA says.

Jupiter, a gas giant with no solid surface, fierce storms, and a metallic hydrogen ocean, is a cosmic giant shielding Earth ...

Europa, Ganymede and Callisto ... they were the first objects known to directly orbit another planet. Their discovery was the final nail in the coffin of the theory that Earth – and humanity ...