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

“We could have detected this galaxy even if it were 10 times fainter, which means that we could see other examples yet ...

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

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

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might be hiding a salty, liquid ocean deep beneath its surface—and new experiments suggest that its ...

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

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.

Love, Death & Robots volume 4 episode 7 is set in a dystopian world where humans have colonized the solar system but have seemingly lost their inherent humaneness.

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a difference ...

The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which operates the Webb and Hubble telescopes, released a video of Jupiter's tempestuous roiling auroras, which you can watch above.

While orbiting Jupiter, it will cross paths with Europa 49 times. The mission ends in 2034 with a planned crash into Ganymede — Jupiter's biggest moon and the solar system's too. There's more ...

But Europa isn't Jupiter's only moon — far from it ... they make up around 99.97% of the mass of all the material orbiting the gas giant. Due to their size and the presence of geologic processes ...