Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper ... crust of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. With a complex suite of scientific instruments, it will analyze Europa’s magnetic field, sample its thin atmosphere, and even ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

Inside Wind Cave the scientists found that chemicals fossilised within the rocks shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue, and ...

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

The shadows of Ganymede and Europa cross ... color of the eclipsed Moon can vary between a dusky gray to a brilliant orange, dependent upon the state of Earth’s atmosphere.

Europa is moving from east to west ... as sunlight is scattered through Earth’s atmosphere and falls onto the Moon. Keep reading as we follow the eclipse’s progression into the early-morning ...

Multiple people familiar with the White House proposal said cuts to NASA's "Science Mission Directorate" could be as high as 50 percent. These sources emphasized that no decisions are final, and there ...

involving scanning Neptune's moon Triton to see if it has a subsurface ocean. This presented a challenge, because of Triton's intense ionosphere, which is the last layer of the atmosphere before ...