The final night of 2025 is the perfect time to watch the moon close to the Pleiades, find the brightest star in the night sky ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of the most exciting places in the solar system. But reaching it is extremely difficult. This ...

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

One giant spider has been observed on Jupiter's moon Europa, sitting right in the middle of its largest crater. Scientists ...

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Scientists discovered a massive hydrothermal field off Greece's Milos- underwater chimneys and cracks that spew boiling hot, ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has recorded important new observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using its Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS). In July, 3I/ATLAS ...

AVIRIS-5 is one of the newest tools in a joint research project from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) called GEMx. The project is designed to search for surface traces of critical minerals, ...

NASA is using a high-altitude ER-2 aircraft and the AVIRIS-5 sensor to map critical minerals across the American West, supporting research on resources used in electronics, clean energy, and national ...

Truong presented research at the American Geophysical Union meeting suggesting that radioactive elements in Europa’s rocks ...