NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is an unmanned probe orbiting the Moon for the past decade.NASA’s space probe has in that time created detailed lunar maps identifying future landing sites, ...

Saturn's moon, Enceladus, could harbour alien life deep within its underground oceans, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Although the moon may appear barren, near the South Pole, tiny ...

Scientists propose that a moon base could act as an isolated first line of biological defense against extraterrestrial ...

In the new movie Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction.

The ocean could be trapped under 19 miles of ice AN ocean full of alien life could be hiding on an icy moon system not far from earth, in what scientists have called an “incredibly surprising” ...