Amazing views of Jupiter over the years via the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons of Io, Ganymede and hazy Uranus can be observed. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (NASA-GSFC), M. H. Wong (UC ...

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While Earth only has the one, Jupiter has about 100 that we know of (and likely ...

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High pressure on the ocean floors of worlds like Enceladus could put a damper on DNA replication, suggests a new study — but that may not be bad news for alien life. Chemicals that play a key role in ...

So you’ve gone and destroyed the planet you called home. It was inevitable. Climate change reached the tipping point. Famine and disease ravaged humanity. A noxious information ecosystem sent society ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will travel to one of Jupiter's largest moons to look for evidence of conditions that could support life. We've known of Europa’s existence for more than four centuries, ...

In another context, Jupiter's moon Ganymede might have been a planet. As the largest moon in our Solar System, it's one of the most intriguing locations in the neighborhood. Which is great, because it ...

We expect space opera to be big—sprawling tales with enormous casts traversing untold star systems and encountering alien beasties beyond human ken. But Amazon Prime’s “The Expanse” took a much more ...

13 Creepy Sounds Recorded in Space by NASA Spacecraft traveling to the far reaches of the solar system pick up some spooky sounds. Now you can hear the best of them, including a Halloween-themed ...

There are plenty of reasons Mass Effect 2 is considered the pinnacle of Bioware’s grand space-faring saga, but who knew a mining mini-game would remain one of its most enduring qualities? For all the ...

Pioneer 10 was the first probe to cross the asteroid belt, traversing it between July 1972 and February 1973. Arriving at Jupiter in December 1973, it passed some 132,000 kilometres from its cloud ...