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Europa Clipper will characterize many features of the icy moon orbiting Jupiter to determine whether or not it offers a good place to search for life.

So far, the bulk of the identified water molecules are too distant from one another to form ice or liquid.

An Israeli lunar lander carrying the tiny animals crashed into the moon in April, and now scientists are trying to determine if the creatures are still alive.

Images from the country’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander show the first sprouting plants.

The insects fell silent as the moon cast a shadow over parts of North America last summer, researchers report.

Data from the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft show frost on the lunar north and south poles.

Vinyl cyanide is thought to rain down onto Saturn’s largest moon, though whether the molecule self-assembles into membrane-like structures is unclear.

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