The spacecraft will reach Europa in 2030, beginning 49 flybys to assess if the moon could harbour life. The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft, launched last year ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide ...

July 21, 2024 — Europa and Enceladus, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively, have evidence of oceans beneath their crusts. A NASA experiment suggests -- if these oceans support life ...

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Japan's SLIM mission exceeded expectations, while NASA’s Perseverance found evidence of ancient life on Mars. The Europa Clipper launched to investigate subsurface oceans on Jupiter's moon ...

Even for Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA's Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one eruption centralized ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Jupiter, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on Dec. 28, 2024, during ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An image shows Io and the Juno spacecraft with a top down view of its south pole and the ...