There are just three moons in our solar system that measure more than 5,000km across. Of these, Jupiter’s moons Ganymede and Callisto are airless and have ancient heavily cratered surfaces. But Saturn ...

We tend to think of the weather as mundane, the sort of boring things you talk about when you have nothing else to say, but in the scope of the solar system, it’s one of the most interesting things ...

When it comes to searching for places in our solar system beyond Earth that could be habitable, some of the most promising targets are moons. Scientists are hunting for life on Jupiter's moon Europa ...

The discovery of a possible gas giant in the habitable zone of one of the closest stars to Earth opens up exciting possibilities. Could a moon orbiting this planet harbor life, similar to Pandora in ...

A puzzling image from the Huygens probe's 2005 Titan landing, showing river-like channels, continues to intrigue scientists. Despite frigid temperatures, these formations suggest liquid methane carved ...

The discovery that molecules of methane and ethane can worm their way into the crystal lattice of frozen hydrogen cyanide has big implications for the chemistry on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The ...

The exoplanet, TOI-715 b, is about one and a half times the width of Earth. Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet ...

A new independent report finds that although NASA’s ambitious mission to fly across the surface of Titan is delayed and over budget, the fault is due to the space agency’s management rather than the ...