Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is using Mars and Earth’s gravity to travel efficiently to Jupiter. The spacecraft will study Europa’s ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

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

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...