Saturn can help orient you. The ringed planet is somewhat low in the southeast to south at nightfall. Now in Aquarius, Saturn ...

Since Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby, scientists have speculated about Miranda’s potential as an “ocean world.” It could harbor a ...

Mars’ features are starting to become visible, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and the Trifid Nebula glows in the sky ...

The Galilean satellite, Ganymede, which orbits Jupiter between Europa and outermost Callisto, is captured here alongside the planet in a true color narrow angle composite from December 3 ...

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

You can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.

NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa ...

A 6-mile-thick shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

Southwest Research Institute scientists played a crucial role in this discovery of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede, shown here in a recent image captured by the Juno ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it ...

Jupiter, now located in Taurus the Bull, appears in telescopes wreathed by its four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. At times, those moons pass in front of or behind the planet ...

Ever since the Galileo spacecraft flew by Jupiter's icy moons in 1989, scientists interested in life beyond our planet have been desperate to go back. Europa Clipper, which blasted off from ...