For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small icy world in orbit around Saturn is emerging as one of the most compelling ...

Europa has long been the darling of the search for life beyond Earth. The reason is simple: beneath its cracked, icy shell ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

Saturn's giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all. Titan may instead hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of melted water where life ...