Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these extraterrestrial waters ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

The remainder of the Bennu asteroid sample can be seen inside this top-down view of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft head with ...

For Kim Tait, those three words have long defined conditions for asteroids in our solar system – the minor celestial bodies that are the refuse from planetary formation processes long passed.

Indeed, life at the ocean’s depths is a hint at how life might look should it exist in subsurface oceans on moons like Europa or Enceladus. The deep sea is filled with biodiversity, much of ...

This image provided by NASA shows a top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition ... Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus also beckon as enticing water worlds.

Locomotion makes things move, and certain forms of locomotion make them move better than others. Those more effective types ...