The U.S. has or soon will have some capabilities that the Europeans lack for such a mission. The SpaceX Starship is first and ...

Scientists have discovered fresh signs that Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could potentially house alien life deep within its ...

A thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way take readings on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. To test the camera and its readings, the NASA mission detoured to Mars, relying on the ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the feasibility of a mission concept called SWIM, short for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers. The project envisions a swarm of dozens of self-propelled, ...

Can life survive in the solar system once the sun dies and becomes a red giant star? New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer ...

Scientists have reported finding new organic matter from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, suggesting that the lunar body could be ...

What processes on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, could offer clues about the small moon potentially harboring life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes ...

A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ocean is thought to ...

Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, bolstering the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust ...