Establishing a permanent presence on the Moon is no longer confined to the realm of science fiction. The Artemis program, ...

And those moons could be surprisingly Earth-like. Thus far, scientists interested in potential habitable worlds beyond our Solar System have focused on planets that could resemble Earth ...

"We also found that 30%–40% of stable moons are in the habitable zone, which is a very significant fraction. We also show that the disk-driven migration scenario for a circumbinary planet-moon ...

Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations where life might arise. Perhaps life can be found on the moon of a hot ...

What makes planets (and moons) habitable? How can we identify life on other planets and moons? Of particular interest are potentially habitable locations such as Mars and certain moons of Saturn and ...

It will then settle permanently around Ganymede in late 2034. The aim of the mission is to find out if any of the moons are habitable and can support life. There are scientific instruments on ...

It also means, say the authors, that potentially habitable ocean moons may exist at Uranus—where NASA may soon send a mission.