Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons , as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team ...

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

Scientists discover thousands of new microbial species in the Mariana Trench, revealing an unprecedented level of diversity ...

Organisms known as extremophiles have been found inhabiting a range of extreme conditions on Earth, including inside our ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the caves beneath Antarctica’s Mount Erebus are an anomaly in more ways than one.

"We're going to have some real options which we're going to need because we've got Europa and league back to back now and we need as many bodies available for that as possible." Heung-min Son ...

The designed mission had to be aligned to current work being performed by NASA but separate from active missions such as the Europa Clipper. "Similarly, the main subject of our mission, Enceladus ...

Beyond Enceladus, this research also aids our understanding of the geophysical processes of other icy moons within our solar system—such as Neptune's Triton, Saturn's Titan and Jupiter's Europa ...

ConocoPhillips has announced it has entered into an agreement to sell its interests in the Ursa and Europa Fields and Ursa Oil Pipeline Company LLC to Shell Offshore Inc. and Shell Pipeline Company LP ...

Hence, the focus shifts to satellites like Europa and Enceladus, whose subsurface oceans might conceal life's building blocks. Earth's extremophiles, notable for surviving in harsh conditions, fuel ...