Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe is due to lift off on Monday on a five-and-a-half-year journey to Europa, one of Jupiter’s many moons ...

The next probe to reach Jupiter's icy moon was NASA's Galileo ... The aim is to understand whether the three ingredients ...

A NASA spacecraft has lifted off on a quest to explore one of Jupiter's moons with scientists suspecting a deep ocean could exist beneath its icy crust. A NASA spacecraft lifted off on Monday on a ...

Jupiter, a gas giant with no solid surface, fierce storms, and a metallic hydrogen ocean, is a cosmic giant shielding Earth ...

A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life.

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Additional energy is supplied in the form of radiation from Jupiter, which would be a death sentence for simple life at the surface of Europa. Under the moon's protective ice shell, however ...

Finding evidence for the first life ever to emerge on planet earth is a long, tough slog. But oddly enough, real answers may ultimately come from Mars.