Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the thick ice shells of bodies like Europa.

Credit: Gianluca Masi/The Virtual Telescope Project While the pair could be seen in the night sky by the unaided eye, ...

and scientists have started to dream about the possibility of aquatic life taking root within some of the icy moons in our system. The frosty worlds surrounding planets like Jupiter and Saturn may ...

This research offers a glimpse into the dramatic events that might have shaped Saturn’s rings and moons, and raises tantalizing questions about the potential for life within this enigmatic ...

Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons, according to US researchers. A team discovered a haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82 ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

“We choose to go to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and do the other things not ... coined in 1996, states that life in the Universe may be doomed to go extinct due to pandemics, climate change ...