Electrons released when cosmic rays strike water-ice can provide energy for microbes and facilitate the formation of complex ...

Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

Rocks tell us a story which most climate scientists seem to have ignored in their panic about a runaway greenhouse effect ...

Learn about cryovolcanism, which shapes the surface of icy moons in the outer Solar System by releasing water that ...

The Orbiting Carbon Observatories have been a game-changer for agriculture and climate science. Now, NASA is under pressure ...

NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.

American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...

After a two-year investigation into the 2023 Titan implosion, the United States Coast Guard found that OceanGate was at fault ...

Simply put, the moon is useful in a way that no other astronomical object is. That's because it's the nearest, most easily ...

A remarkable discovery in palaeontology has emerged from the re-examination of a fossil originally unearthed over four ...

At first glance, Mars looks completely different from Earth. It’s got that dusty red surface, eerie atmosphere, and ...