Explore NASA's cancelled Europa mission and learn why Europa is a key target in the search for extraterrestrial life.

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

NASA's Juno mission finds a massive lava lake in Jupiter, offering new insights into volcanic activity beyond Earth and the ...

NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter Oct. 14 ... an extraordinarily low-density giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

Jupiter’s ice-covered ocean moon Europa floats above the planet’s Great Red Spot in this 1979 image from Voyager 1. This is a ...

This week, new developments in autonomous and high-speed aviation are signaling a dramatic shift in the future of military ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

The ice on the surface of Jupiter's massive moon Europa is constantly changing, hinting at the presence of a subsurface ocean ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA's Europa Clipper mission on Monday launched a satellite to investigate Europa, Jupiter’s “mysterious moon” — a world covered in ice that scientists say could ...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable ...