NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Launched on Aug. 12, 2018, the probe is the fastest human-made object in existence. It used flybys of Venus to adjust its orbit increasingly closer to the solar surface. It completed its seventh and ...

German football club SC Freiburg has announced that German system integrator Badenova has completed construction on a 2.4 MW rooftop solar array on the roof of its Europa-Park stadium. The solar ...

"Europa contains twice the amount of liquid ... that icy moons hold the largest reservoir of liquid water in our solar system,” Baptiste Journaux, research professor of Earth and Space Science ...

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

Only two of the terrestrial planets have moons orbiting them: Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 79 moons. The four largest moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede ...

Two close-ups of its moon Europa—where astrobiologists think microbial life may exist—21 flybys of far-out Callisto, and nine months in orbit around the biggest moon in the solar system ...