Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

Getting to Europa is far more difficult than simply reaching Jupiter. This episode explores the enormous challenges involved in traveling to a moon buried deep within Jupiter’s radiation belts. From ...

Europa sits inside Jupiter’s radiation belts—an environment that can fry spacecraft electronics fast. So NASA designed Europa ...

The planet's radius from pole to center has been revised to 66,842 km, and at the equator to 71,488 km. That makes it about ...

Scientists with expertise in geophysics at Washington State University have developed an alternative pathway for the transport of nutrients to the deep ocean under Europa’s exterior surface. Europa, ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

New observations show a small Saturn moon has generated electromagnetic waves that extend more than 313,000 miles behind it inside Saturn’s magnetic field. That newly measured reach reveals a tiny icy ...

At just 500 kilometers across, Saturn's sixth-largest moon would fit comfortably inside the United Kingdom, with room to spare.

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

A strange planetary system has left scientists baffled - as it appears to be 'inside out'.