A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

Research into Jupiter’s moons shows Io and Europa did not evolve apart but formed with opposite compositions from the ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

Over the course of three centuries, from the 17th through the 19th inclusive, there was an astronomical controversy that was ...

Photoshop 2017 tutorial showing how to create a close-up of Jupiter and one of its moons from scratch. Royalty-Free Music ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Scientists believe Europa's seafloor is likely tectonically quiet, without active volcanoes or hot water plumes. These findings contrast with the long-held theory that Europa is a promising location ...

Jupiter reaches opposition, the point in its orbit where the planet is opposite the sun in our sky. This brings the gas giant to its closest of the year, making it bright and easy to spot in the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond Earth, with a large subsurface ocean thought to ...

The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space scientists quite like Europa, an ice-shrouded world that is thought to ...