Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

A study published in Nature Communications suggests that Europa’s rocky seafloor is likely too mechanically strong to support ...

Scientists have assembled a catalogue of more than 2,000 stars that could be supporting alien life. Researchers behind the ...

New research casts doubt on the prospects for a habitable, active environment beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon ...

Thousands of light-years from Earth, there could be another planet hospitable to life. Kepler 69c. And you’re about to travel ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...