Some day, human explorers will land a spacecraft on the surface of Europa, Enceladus, Titan, or some other icy world…
If you want to get inside a planet or moon fast, the European Space Agency says lobbing a spacecraft at…
According to research by NASA astronomers using the next-generation optics of the 10-meter Keck II telescope, Jupiter's ice-encrusted moon Europa…
Astronomer Mike Brown and his colleague Kevin Hand might be suffering from "Pump Handle Phobia," as radio personality Garrison Keillor…
Lake Vida lies within one of Antarctica's cold, arid McMurdo Dry Valleys (Photo: Desert Research Institute) Even inside an almost…
Here's a trailer from a new movie called "Europa Report" about a near-future mission to Jupiter's moon, Europa, in search…
[/caption] The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for an exciting mission to explore the icy moons of Jupiter,…
[/caption] The more we explore our solar system, the more we find things in common. Jupiter's frigid moon - Europa…
[/caption] Sealed off for millions of years beneath an almost impenetrable layer of ice, Lake Vostok has kept a vast…