Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

When we imagine alien life in books or on TV, we often think of planets like ours inhabited by extraterrestrial people. The Harry Vanderspeigle’s (Alan Tudyk) of the universe are basically human with ...

Beneath Triton's frozen crust of nitrogen ice, scientists believe a vast subsurface ocean could be hiding and with it, the ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn's largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush.

Because Titan is tidally locked, the same side of the moon faces Saturn all the time, just like our own moon and Earth. Saturn’s gravitational pull is so intense that it deforms the moon’s surface, ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

These findings come from data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. The spacecraft ...

Cassini narrow-angle camera image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. There are complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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