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Juno Sounding Finds Europa’s Outer Ice Layer Averages 18 Miles Thick in Surveyed Region

The finding will guide Europa Clipper and ESA’s JUICE as they refine targets for probing the moon’s habitability.

NASA Resumes Search for Silent MAVEN Orbiter as Odds of Recovery Diminish

Reanalysis Points to Solar Storm as Cause of Uranus’s 1986 Radiation Belt Spike

Blue Origin Sets Nov. 9 New Glenn Launch to Send NASA’s ESCAPADE Twins Toward Mars

Cassini Reanalysis Finds Complex Organics in Fresh Enceladus Plume Grains

JAXA Concludes Akatsuki Venus Orbiter Mission After 15 Years

Webb Spots Tiny New Moon Around Uranus, Bringing Count to 29

James Webb Spots Tiny New Moon Orbiting Uranus

NASA Terminates Lunar Trailblazer Mission After Lost Contact

Europa Clipper Completes Successful Mars Radar Test En Route to Jupiter’s Moon

Mars Orbiter Executes 120-Degree Rolls to Reveal Deeper Subsurface Layers

Mars Odyssey Orbiter Captures First Horizon View of Arsia Mons Through Clouds

China’s Tianwen-2 probe launches to sample Earth’s quasi-satellite Kamo’oalewa