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

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped black and white images of a rock on the Martian surface that looks remarkably like a piece ...

For years, scientists have been looking for signs of liquid water just beneath the surface of Mars. New research recently published in Nature Communications may have dried up one of the most ...

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 ...

A new global overview of Mars suggests dust, rather than water, is the source of mysterious streaks there ...

Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space—and revealed the unstable ...

The focus on Mars' lost water is misplaced considering that Earth's oceans have barely been studied, some scientists say.

Mars may not have always been the dry and dusty world we imagine. A staggering network of ancient riverbeds, spanning over 15,000 kilometers, has been discovered in the planet’s Noachis Terra ...

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

Scientists from the UK have been able to recreate extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space and said the unstable behaviour of water revealed can help identify ancient signs of cryovolcanic ...