Imagery of fractured terrain on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter’s moon Europa pinpoints environments influenced by water.

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Europa another of Jupiter’s moons is covered ... temperatures resulting in a world of extremes. Conclusion The Solar System’s ...

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...

Saturn is practically a solar system unto itself ... a closeup of the ice crust in the Conamara region of Jupiter's moon Europa. Right click to download a larger version of this image.

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 ...