Friday, October 25Venus passes 3° north of Antares at 3 P.M. EDT. The pair is very low in the southwest, but if you've got a ...

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will use its various instruments to probe whether the icy ocean world is habitable.

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing Nasa probe is due to lift off on Monday on a ...

A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa ...

It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...

Europa Clipper launched on Monday, Oct. 14 atop a SpaceX rocket to begin a 1.8-billion-mile journey to the Jovian System to ...

Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, in contrast ... from Jupiter likely maintain a massive liquid ocean beneath the moon’s icy surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael Carroll Europa, Ganymede ...

Covered by a shimmering smooth icy crust, it is thought to harbour an ocean 100 to 150 kilometres deep beneath its surface, which is around ... Ganymede and Callisto were later named the 'Galilean ...

NASA has successfully launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to explore Jupiter’s moon ...

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today ...

A frozen “ocean world” is the likeliest place in the solar system to foster alien life. Louise Prockter and her colleagues ...

The bulges move with the rotation of the moon around the Earth. An observer on the Earth's surface as the bulge approaches will see the sea level rise and then fall after it is exceeded.