The Moon held on to its magnetic field for most of its life — which could mean less lunar water available to future astronauts than expected.

The Drake Passage, between the southern tip of South America and Antarctic, is infamous as one of the most dangerous journeys ...

Artwork: Europa Clipper will try to determine whether the moon can support biology Scientists working on an audacious mission to the ocean world ... path takes it deep into belts of intense ...

The private operator, Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic, directed the craft into ... to the ocean surface. And even if they did, they should have impacted far away from any population. US Moon mission ...

Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon. Sure, its massive Herschel ... station is also evidence that it may be an ocean world capable of supporting life.

Miranda, a small moon ... have an ocean hidden beneath its icy surface. If this is true, it could completely change how we approach the search for life on other planets. Let’s delve into this ...

Saturn has 146 confirmed moons—more than any other planet in the solar system—but one called Enceladus stands out. It appears to have the ingredients for life. From 2004 to 2017, Cassini—a ...

Recent findings from data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal the presence of a vast ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon Mimas ... offering insights into the origins of ...

NASA's Juno mission revealed that Jupiter's moon ... into space.)" What powers Io's volcanoes? Io’s volcanoes are likely powered by separate magma chambers instead of one large magma ocean.

The Drake is part of the most voluminous ocean current in the world, with up to 5,300 million cubic feet flowing per second. Squeezed into the narrow ... were going to the moon, you’d expect ...

A US spacecraft launched last week to try to land on the Moon has ended its mission in flames ... directed the craft into Earth's atmosphere to burn up. A tracking station in Canberra, Australia ...