NARRATOR: But many questions remain unanswered. NARRATOR: And of all the worlds in our Solar System, ours hits the icy jackpot. The ice we have here on Earth is special. And if it didn't have its ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer of methane clathrate, which is solid water ice with methane gas ...

Now, it’s finally happening: A spacecraft bound for the icy world blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX rocket on October 14, after delay due to Hurricane Milton. NASA’s Europa ...

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And now, new research based on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has suggested that Miranda, a small Uranian icy moon, may have once possessed a deep liquid water ocean beneath its surface.

"We want to determine whether Europa has the potential to support simple life in the deep ocean, beneath its icy layer," he said. "We want to understand whether Europa has the key ingredients to ...

"Some of these features are surprisingly dark compared with their icy surroundings, earning their nickname of 'cryptic terrain,'" the statement added. The imagery shows thick layered deposits with ...

"Some of these features are surprisingly dark compared with their icy surroundings, earning their nickname of 'cryptic terrain.'" Two European Mars orbiters spied a variety of cryptic surface ...

Just after noon on Monday, a SpaceX rocket stood on the same launchpad that once sent men to the moon. Hurricane Milton had recently ripped across Florida, whipping up winds of a hundred miles per ...

Europe is about to undertake one of its grandest ever space missions, to explore the icy moons of Jupiter. The Juice satellite is going through final testing in Toulouse, France, after which it ...

and forced the closure of the space center. Can an icy Jupiter moon sustain life? NASA’s biggest space probe will investigate. Take a visual look at Europa Clipper’s journey here. End of ...

Astronomers have detected a huge plume of water vapour spurting out into space from Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn. The 504km-wide (313 miles) moon is well known for its geysers, but this is a ...