The search for alien life has moved from planets to moons. This video dives into the hidden, globe-spanning oceans beneath ...

Two ice worlds, Pluto and Europa, are closer to being explored by robotic spacecraft, and could be our best bets for finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Both of these ice-covered worlds ...

In a groundbreaking study published in The Planetary Science Journal, researchers have uncovered a fascinating new aspect of ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is launching this week to one of the best places we know to search for alien lifeforms. Discovering extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific and ...

Forget Mars—Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of the most promising worlds in the solar system to look for alien life, in large part because it boasts a huge liquid ocean sitting below a sheet of ice.

Jupiter’s moon Europa likely has water plumes—great geysers of saline ocean blasting from its icy shell. That's what scientists announced earlier today, reaffirming previous observations of plume ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

NASA launched Europa Clipper to see if Jupiter's moon Europa could host alien life. Scientists think Europa contains a vast saltwater ocean deep beneath its surface. A NASA director said the mission ...

NASA's alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter.

The US group sent out a cryptic message, stating that there is “surprising activity” on Europa – the most well known of Jupiter’s 67 moons. NASA has been analysing data from its Hubble Space Telescope ...

Can you smell what the rocky planet of Venus is cooking? Because it might be the alien life we’ve been trying so hard to find. Astronomers say they’ve detected a chemical in the Venusian clouds that ...