Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found ...

Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...

Astrobiologist Joshua Sebree of the University of Northern Iowa suggests that South Dakota's Wind Cave exhibits chemical ...

Our fascination with alien life took off after Galileo’s new telescope ... but on the distant moons Europa (which orbits Jupiter) and Enceladus (a satellite of Saturn). Both harbour a liquid ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry ...

In fact, worlds like Pluto, Europa, and Enceladus ... the estimated 100 billion planets in our galaxy, intelligent alien life has taken hold. So the question is, why haven't we found even a ...

Scientists have observed plumes of water vapor erupting from Europa's surface. The spacecraft will fly through these plumes to collect samples and analyze their composition for signs of life.

Most likely, the first alien life we discover will be hidden beneath miles of ocean on a distant world like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus. That's why the best way to search for ...

Europa could harbor more water than Earth ... This not only connects us to the universe, but highlights the possibility of alien life, explains famed astrophysicist and director of the Hayden ...

Such properties make it viable for existing deep within the interiors of icy moons like Europa or Ganymede ... ‘Could these alien waters harbor life forms that can survive in non- ideal ...