The Moon has long been cast as a dead world, a place of dust, vacuum and brutal temperature swings that no living thing could ...

Europa Clipper has officially commenced. The highly anticipated NASA mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa for signs of habitability launched on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

(CNN) — The Europa Clipper spacecraft passed a key milestone on Monday and is on track to launch next month to explore and seek signs of habitability on one of Jupiter’s moons, according to NASA. The ...

Cassini detected fresh organic compounds in ice plumes from Enceladus’s subsurface ocean, strengthening the moon’s potential as a habitable environment beyond Earth.

Saturn's innermost moon, which resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, may be a "stealth" ocean world, according to new research. Mimas, which is the smallest and closest to Saturn of the ringed ...

The number of known places in our galaxy theoretically hospitable to life may be significantly greater than previously thought, according to new research. Researchers with Planet Hunters are reporting ...

The outer solar system is awash with liquid water. A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, Europa — with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. A ...

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe has spotted a habitable planet right here in our solar system — and its sensors are showing several molecules and elements in its ...

When the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands into a red giant, it will eventually encompass the innermost planets of the solar system, out to about Earth’s orbit. Being closer to our enlarged ...

The moon’s surface has long been considered barren, but new research published in Communications Earth & Environment suggests ...