The scientific wonderers at What If explore the icy oceans of a Jovian moon to see how finding alien microbes would change ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of the most exciting places in the solar system. But reaching it is extremely difficult. This ...

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is on its (very long) way to Jupiter, and will finally arrive at the King of Planets ...

Gas giant Saturn has significantly extended its "who has the most moons in the Solar System" competition, with 11 more moons ...

A new study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics ...

To summarize, the current tally is that for the planets, Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 101, Saturn has 285, ...

Provided they host thick, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres, moons orbiting free-floating exoplanets could retain much of the ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 20The vernal equinox occurs at 10:46 A.M. EDT, bringing ...

Most people do not understand that the solar system contains more objects than they typically anticipate. Scientists have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals active volcanoes on Io in unprecedented detail thanks to an innovative technique.

The findings were published March 20 in the journal AGU Advances and were based on data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, ...