The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

NASA launches satellite to in­ves­tigate Europa, Jupiter’s 'mys­te­rious moon' BY Anthony Leone Brevard County UPDATED 12:37 PM ET Oct. 14, 2024 ...

In approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer a temporary refuge. Research suggests Europa's icy shell will ...

And because the habitable zone shifts even during the red giant phase as the Sun continues to evolve, no planet in our solar system will spend more than half a billion years in the new habitable ...

In approximately five billion years, as the Sun transforms into a red giant, it will engulf Earth. However, a new study suggests this event could briefly make Jupiter's moon, Europa, habitable. As ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

In a groundbreaking first, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of a distant exoplanet ...