New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life but ...

Astronomers have studied 14 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, and now suspect that ...

Rogue planet moons habitable for 4.3 billion years without any star? A new LMU and Max Planck Institute study shows tidal ...

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

Dr Sarah Alam Malik suggests Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon Europa, may host conditions suitable for life, challenging traditional views of the 'Goldilocks zone'.

Bright oranges and reds shooting skyward, and a sea of cooler black below... our mental images of volcanoes are as vivid as reality, though volcanism is not limited to our home planet. Dr. Radebaugh ...

Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating ...