Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging assumptions about its potential for life.

Miranda eventually fell out of sync with one of the other Uranian moons, nullifying the mechanism keeping its interior warm. Researchers don't think Miranda has fully frozen over yet though, as it ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

But the photograph, captured from the International Space Station (ISS) where Pettit arrived in September on his fourth ...

Another ice-shelled moon of the outer Solar System, Enceladus, stunned NASA’s Cassini mission team when the Saturn world revealed a magnificent jet to the spacecraft in 2005. The Hubble Space ...

NARRATOR: Any mission to Enceladus is a ways off. But there is another world much closer to home that has more volcanoes strewn across its surface than any other planet. To find it, we have to ...

"The mission's three main science objectives are ... such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, that could have the right stuff for life, so why has NASA selected Europa as its focus? Well, based on what ...

Two other long-sought missions achieved top ranking in the most recent decadal survey of planetary scientists: a Uranus orbiter and a mission to Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, a smaller, more ...

Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.

Brianna Casey worked on the NASA mission and is hoping to discover if ... With an underground ocean and geysers, Saturn’s moon Enceladus is another top candidate. “Ocean worlds like Europa ...