New research casts doubt on the prospects for a habitable, active environment beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon ...
Scientists studying Jupiter’s moon Europa have zeroed in on a strange, spider-like feature etched into the moon’s icy shell, ...
A new study reveals Jupiter's moon Europa likely lacks active geology on its seafloor, reducing chances of life in its vast ...
Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...
A study published in Nature Communications suggests that Europa’s rocky seafloor is likely too mechanically strong to support ...
Cassini narrow-angle camera image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. There are complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, ...
Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn's largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
These findings come from data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. The spacecraft detected organic compounds that had not been seen before. These compounds ...
This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampart-like features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Saturn’s ...