Nasa’s mission teams use extreme environments to trial equipment and procedures for future lunar and planetary exploration.

Europa’s “wall-demon” scar resembles lake stars on Earth, prompting researchers to investigate whether it indicates pockets of water beneath the moon’s frozen surface ...

Forget asteroid mining and bases on Titan. In Part 2, we continue our ruthless scientific audit of the solar system. We evaluate the Moon, Ceres, Europa, Titan, and Pluto, assigning a realistic ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, shows a bizarre spider-like scar on its surface. Scientists now explain the possible ...