The icy moon is far enough from Jupiter and the intense plasma-flooded space environment ... it can easily make watery oceans due to the bizarrely low density of ice. And that suggests life has a ...

The mission took the opportunity of its Mars flyby to make sure its instruments were functioning properly. One designed and ...

The researchers used modeling to study how much life could be supported on the moon from its supply of organic molecules. These are molecules that form the building blocks of life, but aren't ...

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 ...

A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath the surface of the gas giant's volcanic moon, Io, and into the world of cyclones playing bumper cars at the north ...

However, when it comes to Jupiter, this world's auroras have another way of forming, too. According to a JWST team statement, particles ejected from volcanoes on the gas giant's hellish moon Io ...

New data from the orbiter has unveiled some of the treacherous conditions of not only Jupiter, but its moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. The findings, which come after Juno has ...

Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing: Jackie Branc (CC BY) A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath the surface of the gas giant's volcanic ...

polar orbit that brings it close to Jupiter and its moons every 53 days. Still, during those flybys, Juno has amassed a bevy of high-quality data about Jupiter's atmosphere, including at the ...