For decades, Pluto was thought to be just another frozen rock spinning around the Sun, far from the action and mystery of the ...

As the years go by, the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But it's not out of contention yet.

Jupiter’s ice-covered ocean moon Europa floats above the planet’s Great Red Spot in this 1979 image from Voyager 1. This is a ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, is a frozen world with a subsurface ocean. It intrigues scientists as a possible home ...

A series of experiments led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Ujjwal Raut support spectral data recently collected by ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

Most believed that Ceres was less than 30% ice and too solid to have ... support the idea that Ceres was once an ocean world, similar to Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, but ...

The loss of Arctic sea ice is one of the most visible signs of our planet's warming. But according to new research, it's also quietly transforming how light moves through the ocean in ways that ...

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter and passes over the gas giant’s ice-covered moon Europa ... s icy moon Europa, a world believed to harbor a vast ...

Thing is, Pensacola's ties to the bottom of the world are probably stronger than ... "One year in the winter, I saw a black line on the ice," he said. "It kept getting more prominent." ...

A LOST Martian ocean may be hiding beneath the red planet's surface. Today Mars is a cold and dry desert – but it may have been covered in rivers ... in Antarctica’s ice sheet." ...