Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission set sail last year and should reach Jupiter and its moons in 2030, while the European Space Agency's JUICE mission should arrive in 2031. Both missions will almost ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

A Kansas University expert has outlined why he believes images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope provide evidence the ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...