How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

NASA Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Europa, but it has some stops to make before it investigates the habitability of ...

For the first time, NASA is journeying to this mysterious moon to determine if it might be able to host alien life.

It will take Europa Clipper 5 1/2 years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant gas planet and sneak close ... t look for life; it has no life detectors.

Ever since the Galileo spacecraft flew by Jupiter's icy moons in 1989, scientists interested in life beyond our planet have been ... with Jupiter in the background. Pic: NASA/JPL-Caltech via ...

Its massive solar panels make Clipper the biggest craft built by NASA to investigate another planet ... Jupiter. Ditto for Saturn’s moon Titan, also suspected of having a subterranean sea. While ...

Its massive solar panels make Clipper the biggest craft built by NASA to investigate another planet ... Jupiter. Ditto for Saturn’s moon Titan, also suspected of having a subterranean sea. While ...