We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar ...

A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

Despite their liquid water and potential for habitability, these moons are very different environments from Earth. On Earth, ...

In the vast theater of the cosmos, where superpowers vie for dominance and private titans like SpaceX rewrite the rules, ...

Eight distant worlds hold secrets that still puzzle scientists and spark endless curiosity. Each moon offers a strange allure ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it had secured a record budget of 22.1 billion euros to fund its programmes for ...

New research indicates that life could potentially exist beneath the boiling subsurface oceans of some icy moons in our solar system.

New research on icy moons was conducted. The study suggests that some icy moons in our solar system may have subsurface ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are ...

Scientists have confirmed the presence of phosphorus, a fundamental building block of DNA and cell membranes, within the ...