"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other planetary ... Planetary Interiors and Geophysics Group at NASA's JPL, didn't start out looking for an ocean ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...

For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon ... to study the planet's surface using Clipper's radar and thermal imager, according to NASA. Credit: NASA During its ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...