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

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa." Today (March ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Scientists have discovered a new form of water called "plastic ice VII" that exists under extreme pressures and temperatures, ...

Scientists found that some slopes on the Moon stay cold enough to hold ice. This could expand water sources for future space ...

Ice may be present a few centimetres below the Moon’s surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously thought due to large, yet highly localised, variations in surface ...

With two commercial moon landers already on their way ... permanently shadowed crater in search of ice deposits. Ice would be a critical resource for future astronauts, if it can be extracted ...