Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...

Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

How do you spot moons, and why hadn't anybody seen these ones already? Doesn't Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly ...

Scientists are trying to understand how the caves formed and how life is supported in extreme environments.

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry in Wind Cave, South Dakota, means that, under an ultraviolet (UV ...