NASA's Juno spacecraft has again captured stunning images of Jupiter and its moon Io, providing more insights into the solar ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there ...

which will hunt for signs of life on Jupiter’s moon when it arrives in 2030. In the meantime, scientists are still puzzling out the physics behind such an icy ocean that could harbor life.

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft also launched last year and is due to arrive in 2034. The missions find suitable conditions for life, then the swim-bots ...

July 21, 2024 — Europa and Enceladus, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively, have evidence of oceans beneath their crusts. A NASA experiment suggests -- if these oceans support life ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

Looking further into the future, scientists dream of even more ambitious missions. Some ideas include sending submarines into ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

Astrobiologists searching for extraterrestrial life estimate that significant ... The research team is also awaiting information from the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), launched by the ...