NASA's Europa Clipper mission has launched to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which may harbor a potentially habitable ocean ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

Let’s say there are 100 billion billion habitable worlds (planets or moons) in the universe. Suppose we are such pessimists that we think life’s chances of getting started on any given ...

"We also found that 30%–40% of stable moons are in the habitable zone, which is a very significant fraction. We also show that the disk-driven migration scenario for a circumbinary planet-moon ...

The exploration of Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos ... early solar system and the processes that led to the formation of habitable planets. Scheduled for launch in 2024, MMX will not only collect ...

Now, though, the satellite has detected what scientists believe may be a second possibly habitable Earth-sized planet in a system called TOI 700. The planet, which is believed to be rocky like our ...

For Ganymede, Dexter got consumed by the idea that you could stand on the moon—the most habitable of the four—at night and see Jupiter and its aurora in its sky. “I went for a more modern ...

What makes planets (and moons) habitable? How can we identify life on other planets and moons? Of particular interest are potentially habitable locations such as Mars and certain moons of Saturn and ...