A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

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

A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has outlined the decade-long development and testing of what was ...

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

On October 14, NASA's largest and most expensive spacecraft, the Europa Clipper, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on its mission to Jupiter's ... space" with Voyager 1 after an onboard ...

The finding could change the way astronomers understand moons dominated by subsurface global oceans in our solar system, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and planets beyond our solar system.

which will work in tandem with Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (or Juice), launched last year to study all four moons. Europa is encrusted in thick ice, as we have known since Voyager 1 and ...

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication.

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter ... Voyager 1 and 2 flybys in 1979. Even in those first low-resolution snapshots, Europa ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft ... The voyage to Jupiter will span 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers), taking the spacecraft by Mars next March and then back near Earth again in 2026.

The Voyager ... Europa in 2014. But they haven’t been confirmed. Once Europa Clipper begins its investigations next decade, humanity will come one step closer to learning if life exists in ...

We're going on a 1.8-billion ... that reaches Jupiter -- are fully extended. While Europa's existence has been known since 1610, the first close-up images were taken by the Voyager probes in ...