Liftoff! NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter Oct. 14, 2024 — NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with ...

NASA’s Voyager probes passed through Jupiter’s system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean Moons. These pictures and the data they gathered offered the first hints ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

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

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

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

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry ...

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

They say their research, part-funded by NASA, may reveal how life could persist in faraway places, such as on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The team explained that the chemistry in the American ...