In approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer ...

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

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by ...

This fanciful yet scientifically guided tale describes a visit to the Moon, and is considered by many the first work of ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, is a frozen world with a subsurface ocean. It intrigues scientists as a possible home ...

In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

Jupiter teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on May 27.

Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...

In the oceans of a moon hundreds of millions of miles from the sun, something fishy may be alive—right now. Below its icy crust Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to host a global ocean up to a ...

so named because Galileo Galilei was the first to observe them through his crude telescope in 1610. On this particular night, all four moons will be in view. Flanking Jupiter on one side ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope ... Europa and Ganymede became known as the Galilean moons of Jupiter.