Dual spacecraft capture both hemispheres of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at once

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instruments aboard ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer ...

Missions to Ocean Moons Face a Strange Hazard Scientists Didn’t Expect

The frozen worlds orbiting Jupiter and Saturn might be encapsulated in "fluffy ice" that could send landers spiraling down a ...
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Astronomers find interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS hiding in images taken before its official discovery

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over a week before it was officially ...
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NASA launches satellite to investigate Europa, Jupiter’s 'mysterious moon'

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA's Europa Clipper mission on Monday launched a satellite to investigate Europa, Jupiter’s “mysterious moon” — a world covered in ice that scientists say could have an ocean ...
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Poet laureate composes poem for Europa Clipper mission

NASA's Europa Clipper mission will carry an original poem written by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...
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Scientists propose new way to find aliens — and we may already have a spacecraft that can help

Scientists say amino acids produced by life are distributed differently and more diversely than amino acids produced by ...
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory imaged interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS June 2025

Astronomers discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in images taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on June 20, 2025, ten ...
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Europa may be hiding alien life - and NASA’s probe is finally on the way

Europa looks like a frozen, lifeless moon — but beneath its shattered ice, scientists think there may be a vast saltwater ...

Study identifies geysers the JUICE mission could explore on Ganymede

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, is also the solar system's largest satellite, even larger than the planet Mercury. It is ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter’s hellish clouds after becoming the first human-made object to orbit an outer planet, and what it revealed still sounds ...

NASA crashed the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter to save Europa. Discover the impossible secrets revealed during its hellish ...
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Amino Acid Patterns Help Scientists Distinguish Alien Life

What methods can scientists use to correctly identify biosignatures, aka signs of life beyond Earth? This is what a recent ...