Moons orbiting free-floating planets that wander the cosmos without a host star could sustain extraterrestrial life for billions of years ...

Saturn is one of the most striking planets in the solar system, famous for its vast and intricate ring system that stretches hundreds of thousands of kilometers across space. But beyond its beauty ...

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

These surprising effects, detected in observations from the James Webb Space Telescope , include a cold spot in Jupiter's ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

North East researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unexpectedly complex behaviour in Jupiter’s ...

On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse will be visible from Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain, making it the first to pass over mainland Europe since 1999. Our stories cover all you need to know ...

New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born in a colossal cosmic crash. New research suggests Titan formed when two older moons slammed together hundreds of millions of years ago—an event so ...

How can Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, influence its much larger parent planet? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics hopes to address as a team of ...

Illustration of the electrodynamic interaction between Enceladus and Saturn. The primary Alfvén wing is shown in blue, and the reflected Alfvén wings in magenta. The arrow indicates the corotation ...