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New models suggest that Europa has very little tectonic activity at its seafloor, which is potentially catastrophic news for ...

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Europa has long been the darling of the search for life beyond Earth. The reason is simple: beneath its cracked, icy shell ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

New research casts doubt on the prospects for a habitable, active environment beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon ...

Beneath Europa's icy shell lies an ocean vaster than Earth's. But is its hidden world buzzing with life, or silent as the ...

Scientists scanned interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS for alien signals using powerful radio telescopes, found nothing artificial, ...