A mess of salt and organic chemicals splattered across the ice on Ganymede could be a hint that its hidden ocean contains the right stuff for life. NASA’s Juno mission recently revealed that the ...

This image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon. At the time of closest approach, Juno was within ...

Jupiter is the king of moons. With 95 of them orbiting the gas giant, some are so large they rival planets in size. But what ...

“Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the Earth.” Such were the words of Harold Urey, ...

As the Solar System-wide quest to find the building blocks of life carries on, humanity's isolated a few places most likely to show us the clues we're looking for. More often than not, the public's ...

NASA says new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope confirm the presence of a subsurface ocean on Jupiter's largest moon. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

This image presents an artist’s impression of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Astronomers have used archival datasets from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal the first evidence for water vapour in ...

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New discoveries about icy moons in the outer solar system have raised exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth. Earlier this month, researchers made two big announcements: Saturn's moon Enceladus ...

Most people who have an interest in space and astronomy know that Europa and Enceladus have subsurface oceans that could, according to exobiologists, contain alien life. Another notable moon is Io, ...

Beneath its icy shell, Jupiter’s largest moon harbors a massive, salty ocean of water — one of the key ingredients for the emergence of life as we know it — based on the latest evidence from the ...