In about 4.5 billion years, the Sun will enter its red giant phase, swallowing Mercury and Venus and rendering Earth ...

Leveraging satellite imagery, Earth observation is a prime example of where the geospatial field intersects with the space ...

Europa may host microbial life when the sun transforms into a red giant s Solar and Jupiter heat may melt Europa's ice and ...

Aquatic blackworms, facing starvation and low oxygen, unite to form 'wormnadoes,' writhing towers observed in the wild for the first time. This collective behavior, previously seen only in labs, ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

Once in orbit around Jupiter, the spacecraft will conduct dozens of close flybys of Europa, collecting detailed data on its atmosphere, surface, and potential subsurface ocean. Despite facing early ...

Closest approach will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface of Mercury ... Scientists are intrigued by Europa because they believe it could hold double the water held by Earth's ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, launched to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon on ... has an ocean underneath its icy surface, making it a prime candidate for the search for life in the outer ...

SUDA will analyze dust particles ejected from Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, by micrometeorite collisions. The data could offer insights into the moon’s potential habitability. “SUDA will provide a ...

The spacecraft is headed toward Jupiter's moon Europa, which scientists believe has a massive saltwater ocean beneath its surface ... not just regulators Musk is facing off with.

Scientists don't think life could survive on Europa's surface because it is bathed in extreme radiation from Jupiter's magnetosphere. “If there is life on Europa, in this habitable environment ...

A second science campaign, which will send the craft past the Jupiter-facing side of the moon ... By studying the chemistry of Europa’s surface ice and subsurface water directly, scientists ...