Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...

Jupiter ’s moon Europa, long considered a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life due to its vast subsurface ...

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NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

If life exists beyond Earth, water may be the first clue. Water Worlds explores the planets and moons where liquid water ...