For decades, Europa has been cast as one of the Solar System’s best bets for alien biology, a frozen world hiding a global ...

A recent study questions the potential for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa, citing a lack of active faulting on its seafloor ...

Recent discoveries suggest the presence of a hidden ocean beneath Mars’ surface, sparking excitement about the possibility of life on the Red Planet. The prospect of water existing in liquid form ...

Even if future studies show that Europa’s ocean is lifeless today, Byrne sees value in the exploration. “I’m not upset if we don’t find life on this particular moon,” he said. “I’m confident that ...

• Simulate planetary conditions more precisely Future Missions: Europa Clipper, Dragonfly, and Mars Life Explorer will carry tools to detect isotopes and chirality, helping verify whether signs of ...

Mars isn't our only neighbor that may harbor life. The odds have risen that Saturn's moon Enceladus may, too. On Wednesday, scientists published a paper outlining the increasing complexity of ...

An image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows Titan in front of Saturn and its rings. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI) A fresh analysis of tidal perturbations on Titan challenges a long-held ...

Enceladus’ chilly geysers spew chemical compounds that hint at the potential for life in the moon of Saturn’s subsurface ocean. But some compounds within the plumes may have formed via high-energy ...

Does Saturn’s moon Titan have a subsurface global ocean where life as we know it could exist? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...