The pH scale is a measure of how acidic or alkaline something is, 1 being highly acidic, 14 being highly alkaline, and 7 ...

Cassini spacecraft data has been used to create the infrared views of Saturn's moon Enceladus. "Reddish areas indicate fresh ...

There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

Notably, hydrogen could serve as a potential energy source for microbial life — much like it does at Earth’s hydrothermal ...

For context, Earth's moon is approximately one-quarter the diameter of Earth and Enceladus is approximately one-seventh the diameter of Earth's moon.

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

"Ice in the rest of the universe has long been considered a snapshot of liquid water – that is, a disordered arrangement fixed in place. Our findings show this is not entirely true." ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began its legendary mission unfolding the secrets of our universe and producing some of the most detailed images of celestial objects to date.

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

9. Saturn's water supply is fed by a giant fountain of vapor spewing from Enceladus. A combination of images and spectra ...