A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system. A new study strengthens the case for Enceladus being a habitable world.

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So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

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The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

Life on our planet emerged quickly or, at least, it did so on a geological timescale. Fossils reveal that micro-life existed ...

Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

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