Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He ...

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of the moon covered in lava plains. The erupting lava (molten rock that ...

When it comes to finding alien life on other planets, most astrobiologists will tell you to “follow the water ...

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of the moon covered in lava plains. The erupting lava (molten rock that reaches ...

Nasa is developing tiny swimming robots designed to explore the vast underwater oceans beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's ...

But the probe will not be able to build a perfect map of the moon’s surface. Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field produces areas of intense radiation near the planet, enough to fry any spacecraft ...

How old is the Moon? Astronaut-gathered samples from the lunar surface put its age at about 4.35 billion years. However, ...

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...