WASHINGTON — Planet Labs secured a multiyear contract worth approximately $280 million to supply satellite imagery and ...

In about 4.5 billion years, the Sun will enter its red giant phase, swallowing Mercury and Venus and rendering Earth uninhabitable. This radical transformation will push the habitable zone toward ...

Life outside the Earth is one of the biggest "what if" in history, but NASA is trying to put a end to the discussion - or add ...

Europa Clipper will face a challenge once it reaches the planet's moon — exposure to radiation, since the moon is within Jupiter’s magnetic field.

Once a star reaches the end of its life stage and becomes a red giant, any chance for life is extinguished. This is also true for our Sun, which is expected to turn into a red giant in about five ...

Europa Clipper will study whether Europa, ... A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the NASA Rover’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with Earth..

Europa is the best bet for a planet/moon in our solar system, apart from Earth, to harbour life. The goal of Europa Clipper’s mission is to learn if Europa is habitable for life as we know it.

Europa’s interior may be home to a moon-spanning, ... Once it pulls into port at Jupiter in 2030, the spacecraft will loop around the giant, storm-wracked planet, ...

Europa is an icy ocean world—and NASA is finally going to ... be orbiting Europa itself because of Jupiter’s formidable magnetic field—roughly 20,000 times stronger than our own planet’s.

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the expanding sun will turn the inner planets into cinders. It will almost ...

Jupiter has around 100 moons, but its four largest, the Galilean moons—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—are its most interesting. Io, orbiting closest to Jupiter, is battered by the planet ...