Plans to retrieve Marian rocks that may contain signs of extraterrestrial life appear to have been abandoned by the US ...

New findings about Jupiter’s moon is raising new doubts about life in spaceEuropa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has always sat a little to the side of the .

In Earth's deep seas, tectonic activity creates hydrothermal vents, where hot water reacts with rock to supply chemical ...

A new study referencing a past NASA Cassini observation found the presence of 'slushy tunnels' in Saturn's largest moon Titan ...

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has quietly moved from curiosity to prime suspect in the search for alien biology. A decade of ...

NASA is having serious problems trying to contact its MAVEN spacecraft, which has not communicated for several weeks. MAVEN, a Mars orbiter studying the planet’s atmosphere since 2014, has shown some ...

BREMEN, Germany — The European Space Agency member states have approved a record-breaking budget for the agency's next three-year period, including an increase in funding for science exploration and ...

Does Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, contain the ingredients for life as we know it, or even just life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of ...

How much ice is Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, losing to space when it discharges its interior ocean? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address ...

At the time of writing, the number of known moons in the solar system reached over 950. Most of them are so savage that there is little chance life as we know it could ever take hold. But there is at ...

In this image provided by NASA, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Enceladus on Nov. 30, 2010, with the shadow of the body of Enceladus on the lower portions of the jets is clearly ...