Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

Enceladus, no wider than Arizona, is an icy moon of Saturn. It has a global subsurface ocean. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has ...

Does Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, contain the conditions for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in ...

A recent study questions the potential for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa, citing a lack of active faulting on its seafloor ...

The outer solar system is awash with liquid water. A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa—with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. A ...

What exists beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon, Callisto? This is what a recent study accepted by The Planetary ...

Mars isn't our only neighbor that may harbor life. The odds have risen that Saturn's moon Enceladus may, too. On Wednesday, scientists published a paper outlining the increasing complexity of ...