Mars, Europa and Enceladus are the three most promising locations in the solar system to search for life living off cosmic ...

Take Europa, for example. It's an icy world today and will stay that way for a long time. However, when the sun enters the red giant phase of its evolution in about 12 billion years, researchers ...

Can life survive in the solar system once the sun dies and becomes a red giant star? New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the ...

As our sun's luminosity increases, humanity is going to have to find a home elsewhere (assuming we survive the next 600 million - 1 billion years, of course). Moons like Europa and Enceladus have ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the expanding sun will turn the inner planets into cinders. It will almost ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar system.