NASA's Europa Clipper mission, featuring SwRI’s MASPEX and UVS instruments, seeks to uncover clues about life-supporting ...

Thanks to images from various NASA spacecraft, we can get an up-close look at the Jupiter ocean moon Europa long before the ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won't search for life, but rather determine whether conditions there ...

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging assumptions about its potential for life.

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search for life, but rather determine whether conditions ...

“To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising,” said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...