Jupiter’s moon Europa has long been a favorite in the search for life beyond Earth, and fresh data from NASA’s Juno ...

Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space. Cornell ...

Far from the Sun, beneath the frozen shells of moons like Europa and Enceladus, new research suggests that water may not simply sit as a quiet global ocean. Instead, it could churn, flash to vapor, ...