An experiment mimicking conditions on the Saturn moon suggests that cell-like bubbles don’t form in methane lakes, puncturing hopes for alien life.

"ULA’s Centaur (with minor modifications) is the only existing in-space propulsion stage capable of meeting the SLS upper stage design parameters and performance characteristics, while also meeting ...

North East researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unexpectedly complex behaviour in Jupiter’s ...

New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.

Are we on the brink of discovering extraterrestrial life? Exciting revelations from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus and Mars have ...

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...

The largest moon of Saturn is bigger than Mercury, yet for all its conspicuousness, scientists don't know exactly how it came ...

On a chilly morning at Marlboro Elementary, three eighth graders gather around a table strewn with notebooks, laptops, and a stack of planetary data sheets. They’re not just ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.

New observations show a small Saturn moon has generated electromagnetic waves that extend more than 313,000 miles behind it inside Saturn’s magnetic field. That newly measured reach reveals a tiny icy ...

If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in our own solar system. Mars has been an obvious choice since before ...