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From deep below the soil at Earth’s polar regions to Pluto’s frozen heart, ice exists all over the solar system...and beyond.
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Frozen: Ice on Earth and Well Beyond
Frozen: Ice on Earth and Well Beyond
Quite a few candles have been lit since NASA was born on Oct. 1, 1958. Here’s a quick look back at some highlights from six decades of exploration—and a glimpse of what’s ahead.
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10 Things: Happy Birthday, NASA
10 Things: Happy Birthday, NASA
Simulating alien worlds, designing spacecraft with origami and using tiny fossils to understand the lives of ancient organisms are all in a day’s work for NASA interns.
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10 Ways Interns Are Exploring Space With NASA
10 Ways Interns Are Exploring Space With NASA
New comprehensive mapping of the radiation pummeling Jupiter’s icy moon Europa reveals where scientists should look -- and how deep they’ll have to go -- when searching for signs of habitability and biosignatures.
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Radiation Maps of Europa: Key to Future Missions
Radiation Maps of Europa: Key to Future Missions
NASA and its partners are blending ocean and space exploration, with a project called SUBSEA, short for Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog. Lessons learned in both fields will be mutually beneficial and could help design future science-focused missions across the solar system.
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NASA Dives Deep into the Search for Life
NASA Dives Deep into the Search for Life
NASA will host a Science Chat May 14 about the latest analysis of Jupiter’s moon Europa and its status as a promising place in the solar system to search for life.
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NASA Hosts Live Discussion about Europa Findings, Potential for Life
NASA Hosts Live Discussion about Europa Findings, Potential for Life
This year, NASA will launch two satellite missions that will increase our understanding of Earth’s frozen reaches. This week’s #10Things is all about ice.
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10 Things: All About Ice
10 Things: All About Ice
A century after the birth of Arthur C. Clarke, we look at 10 aspects of real-life space travel that he predicted, popularized or influenced.
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10 Things, Dec. 18: Space Technology, Magic and Arthur C. Clarke
10 Things, Dec. 18: Space Technology, Magic and Arthur C. Clarke
It's never too late to appreciate the far-reaching influence the Voyagers have had—including pop culture.
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The Voyagers in Popular Culture
The Voyagers in Popular Culture
Exploration Stories: Favorite Historical Moments - Robert Pappalardo Interview
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Europa's Ocean
Europa's Ocean
Many of you have heard me talk about in this column and in my public lectures how this is the most challenging budgetary time of my entire 33 year career.
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The Future of Planetary Science is in Your Hands
The Future of Planetary Science is in Your Hands
Europa, Jupiter's smallest moon, might not only sustain but foster life according to the research of a University of Arizona professor.
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Europan Tides Might Foster Life, Says UA Member of Galileo Imaging Team
Europan Tides Might Foster Life, Says UA Member of Galileo Imaging Team
The red tinge of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, could be caused by frozen bits of bacteria.
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What Makes Europa Pink?
What Makes Europa Pink?
San Andreas-like faults in the crust of Jupiter's icy moon Europa provide evidence that the crust, floating on a liquid water ocean, has slipped over the globe, so that the poles recently have wandered hundreds of miles, a University of Arizona undergraduate student reported today.
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UA Student Discovers Evidence for 'Wandering' Poles, Convergence Zones on Jupiter's Moon Europa
UA Student Discovers Evidence for 'Wandering' Poles, Convergence Zones on Jupiter's Moon Europa
Impact craters on Europa - the jovian satellite that scientists say may hide a subsurface liquid ocean - show that the moon's brittle ice shell crust is more than 3 to 4 kilometers (1.8 to 2.4 miles) thick, two University of Arizona planetary scientists report in Science (Nov. 9 issue).
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Europa's Ice Crust Is Deeper Than 3 Kilometers, UA Scientists Find
Europa's Ice Crust Is Deeper Than 3 Kilometers, UA Scientists Find
Things are crackling on the giant Jovian moon, Europa, and a group of earth-bound ocean scientists funded by the Office of Naval Research are intrigued... could Jupiter's Europa be hiding an ocean of water under that icy surface?
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Listening for an Ocean on Europa
Listening for an Ocean on Europa
NASA researchers have the strongest evidence yet that one of Jupiter's most mysterious moons hides an ocean of water underneath its icy coat.
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Galileo Evidence Points to Possible Water World Under Europa's Icy Crust
Galileo Evidence Points to Possible Water World Under Europa's Icy Crust
If alien creatures exist elsewhere in our solar system, they're most likely to be found on Europa, one of 16 moons orbiting Jupiter.
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New Findings Support Prospect of Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa
New Findings Support Prospect of Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa
When NASA's Galileo spacecraft swooped past Jupiter's moon Europa a week ago, it picked up powerful new evidence that a liquid ocean lies beneath Europa's icy crust.
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Galileo Findings Boost Idea of Other-Worldly Ocean
Galileo Findings Boost Idea of Other-Worldly Ocean
Hydrogen peroxide - the chemical that can turn a brunette into an instant blonde - appears on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, according to a new discovery by NASA's Galileo spacecraft reported in the March 26 edition of the journal Science.
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NASA's Galileo Finds 'Bottle Blonde' Chemical on Europa
NASA's Galileo Finds 'Bottle Blonde' Chemical on Europa
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MU69 from 24 Million Miles
MU69 from 24 Million Miles
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Windswept Opportunity Rover
Windswept Opportunity Rover
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Dawn Spacecraft Diagram No. 1
Dawn Spacecraft Diagram No. 1