Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to huge heights.

Since moons like Jupiter's Callisto and Neptune's Triton ... that it hosts the key ingredients to support it, those being water, essential chemical elements, and energy (e.g. heat source from ...

This includes (primarily) water, as well as ammonia, nitrogen, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide or dioxide – some with extremely low freezing points. It is likely that the four large moons were ...

It’s possible that the small moon may have once held water, like Europa or Ganymede, as ice was once common in its part of the solar system. However, a combination of radiation from Jupiter and ...

Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...

Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is littered with hundreds of erupting volcanoes. High-resolution images now reveal several dozen lava lakes, researchers ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry ...