Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to investigate.

These new discoveries cement Saturn’s place as the winner of the Solar System’s moon competition, with more confirmed moons ...

NASA installed the solar array for the Europa Clipper spacecraft ... The arrays are large, as the Jupiter system is more than five times as far from the sun as Earth. The craft’s arrays ...

Volcanoes rage on Io's surface, earning it the title of the solar system's most volcanically active body. And scientists believe Europa sports a deep, vast ocean beneath its icy crust, making it a ...

Only two of the terrestrial planets have moons orbiting them: Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 79 moons. The four largest moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede ...

Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice VII. A study proposes that Alpha Centauri could be contributing a ...

Astrobiologist Joshua Sebree of the University of Northern Iowa suggests that South Dakota's Wind Cave exhibits chemical similarities to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.