NASA’s Europa Clipper is now soaring towards Jupiter to look for an environment that could support extraterrestrial life. The spacecraft is the largest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission.

A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy ...

Scientists discovered a new crustacean species in the Atacama Trench, 8,000 meters deep, revealing the Hadal zone as a ...

Steam poured from beneath the Falcon Heavy rocket, quickly followed by bright propulsion as it rose into the clear Florida sky Monday, launching its spacecraft on a more than five year journey to ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

All sorts of crazy things have been suggested regarding 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object that we've discovered.

The Earth's Moon is its only one, but scientists recently discovered a new celestial body that will be staying near the planet for the next several decades.

NASA has released images of the Hubble Space Telescope of what appears to be plumes of water vapor erupting on one of Jupiter's moons, according to AccuWeather. For years, astronomers believed that ...

(Top to bottom) Surface crack patterns on three different worlds: Mars, Europa, and Earth that reveal how fractures form under vastly different environmental conditions. Penn geophysicist Douglas ...