NASA's Europa Clipper mission has launched to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which may harbor a potentially habitable ocean beneath its surface.

News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We ...

"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan, told Live Science. The moon's temperature can range ...

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 ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

They also aim to assess the theoretical possibility of habitable moons orbiting the large planets they’ve identified. The research team employed a systematic approach built on data from NASA’s ...

When searching for alien life, it’s not unusual to use Earth as a test bed for theories and even practice runs. Perhaps one ...

And we know that habitable environments are everywhere. Let’s say there are 100 billion billion habitable worlds (planets or ...

News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We ...