A moon can sit next door to another and still feel like a different world. Around Jupiter, that contrast shows up fast.

In the eastern Utah desert, carbon-dioxide-saturated water bubbles, sprays and foams from the ground. These cold-water ...

While scientists have debated for decades about the thickness of Europa's icy shell, Jupiter's icy moon, a new study finally provides a clear answer. This is an important result for ...

Learn how cold-water geysers on Earth could give scientists a clear path in the search for extraterrestrial life on icy moons.

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Learn more about the top theories about how life began on Earth, and how it may not have started from scratch.

In the dry desert of eastern Utah, strange geysers shoot cold, fizzy water into the air. Instead of boiling like the famous hot geysers in Yellowstone, these eruptions are powered by carbon dioxide ...

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...