Saturn’s moon Enceladus has geysers shooting tiny grains of ice into space. These grains could hold traces of life − but researchers need the right tools to tell.
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An instrument on the Europa Clipper mission might be able to detect biological cells from space.
The Solar System could be awash with oceans, not on the surface but hidden inside the most surprising bodies
Europa Clipper will contain a plaque that celebrates humanity’s relationship with water and a decades-old tradition of searching for life outside Earth.
Only about 12kg of oxygen is produced per second on Europa, which is on the lower side of previous estimates from about 5kg to 1,100 kg per second.
Moons and asteroids will be visited by spacecraft from Earth next year.
Expect lots of space missions to launch this coming year, with exciting new science to follow.
Planetary analogues are sites on Earth that are so extreme that they replicate those of celestial bodies in our solar system.
We’re going to get up close and personal with three of Jupiter’s largest moons like never before.
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer and Europa Clipper missions will arrive at Jupiter in the 2030s and provide researchers with unprecedented access to the icy moons orbiting the gas giant.
The clouds of Venus may harbour alien life. But where else?
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission just got the green light - here’s what it could achieve.
Whether anything could live in Europa’s subsurface ocean depends on what kind of salt it contains. Now scientists have found out.
NASA’s InSight Mars lander touches down Nov. 26, part of a careful robotic approach to exploring the red planet. But human exploration of Mars will inevitably introduce Earth life. Are you OK with that?
We could find evidence of life on Europa within a couple of decades.
There has been much excitement this week about the possibility of water – and life – on some newly discovered exoplanets. But we can look closer to home for evidence of ET.
We could be exploring the oceans of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s icy moons in a couple of decades. Here’s what we need to work out.
Missions including ExoMars, Juno and Rosetta could make some major discoveries in 2016.
Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of the most enticing objects in our solar system, and a future NASA mission may help reveal whether it is a suitable for life.
NASA has now formally started to pack its bags for the next big discovery mission, this time heading to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Last month NASA announced the instruments that will fly on this trip and…
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow/Reader in Planetary Physics, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Associate, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor in Planetary Sciences, University of Leicester
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Sea ice microbial physiologist, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania
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Sterrenkenner, History & Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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President, METI International; Professor Emeritus, California Institute of Integral Studies
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Research Associate, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Planetary Science, Purdue University
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Candidat au doctorat en océanographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
