Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other planetary ... Planetary Interiors and Geophysics Group at NASA's JPL, didn't start out looking for an ocean ...

On March 1, NASA's Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for ... critical leg of its long voyage to the Jupiter system. The close flyby offers ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon ... to study the planet's surface using Clipper's radar and thermal imager, according to NASA. Credit: NASA During its ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...