Far from being quiet, frozen backwaters, the icy moons of the outer solar system are starting to look like some of the most ...

How do planetary systems form and evolve? This is what a new and groundbreaking laboratory at the Southwest Research ...

Key Findings The latest filtered image exposes structures invisible to the unaided eye. The jets emerge in coherent waves, aligned with forces no simple sublimation model can fully explain. And each ...

As the 3I/ATLAS nears its closest distance to Earth, an international team of astronomers now says the space rock may be covered in active, icy cryovolcanoes. If true, the evidence detailed in their ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be showing signs of active eruptions from ice volcanoes on its surface, according to new ...

Enceladus might be one of the most fascinating places in the solar system, but getting there is brutally difficult. The ...

ESA will have 3.787 billion Euros ($4.39 billion) for its science project in the coming budgetary period, up 600 million ...

On 26 and 27 November 2025 in Bremen, Germany, ministers and high-level representatives from the 23 Member States, Associate ...

His research focuses on how subsurface oceans interact with the overlying ice crusts of moons such as Enceladus, one of ...

Newly released telescope images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have revealed what researchers describe as possible ice-volcanic eruptions, adding another layer of intrigue to one of the most ...

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...