{"count":37,"next":"https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/articles/?format=json&limit=10&offset=10&search=water+ice+moon","previous":null,"results":[{"id":37775,"title":"NASA Fosters Development of Lunar Resource-Seeking Technologies","authors":[{"name":"NASA","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/technology/nasa-fosters-development-of-lunar-resource-seeking-technologies/","image_url":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009287/art002e009287~large.jpg","news_site":"NASA","summary":"To support long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA and industry are developing technologies that can extract resources such as hydrogen and helium-3 from lunar soil, known as regolith. This capability, known as in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), allows explorers to use what is already available on other planetary bodies, from water ice to minerals. […]","published_at":"2026-05-04T20:32:47Z","updated_at":"2026-05-04T20:40:09.442233Z","featured":false,"launches":[],"events":[]},{"id":37019,"title":"NASA’s Water-Hunting Tool Will Help Scout Moon’s South Pole","authors":[{"name":"NASA","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-water-hunting-tool-will-help-scout-moons-south-pole/","image_url":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as17-140-21497/as17-140-21497~large.jpg","news_site":"NASA","summary":"NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX) mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).","published_at":"2026-03-24T13:59:00Z","updated_at":"2026-03-24T14:19:04.243678Z","featured":false,"launches":[{"launch_id":"3a4dc969-d264-48a1-b113-bf69a798a5c4","provider":"Launch Library 2"}],"events":[]},{"id":35544,"title":"Birth conditions fixed water contrast on Jupiters moons","authors":[{"name":"SpaceDaily","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Birth_conditions_fixed_water_contrast_on_Jupiters_moons_999.html","image_url":"https://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/jupiter-moons-spix-bg.jpg","news_site":"SpaceDaily","summary":"Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026\n\n\nWhile Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor Europa is thought to harbor a vast global ocean of liquid water beneath an icy crust. A new international study co-led by Aix-Marseille University and Southwest Research Institute finds that this stark contrast in water content was imprinted at birth as the moons formed a","published_at":"2026-01-21T13:11:03Z","updated_at":"2026-01-21T12:00:14.657144Z","featured":false,"launches":[],"events":[]},{"id":35546,"title":"Study links Europa's quiet seafloor to hidden potential for life","authors":[{"name":"SpaceDaily","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Study_links_Europas_quiet_seafloor_to_hidden_potential_for_life_999.html","image_url":"https://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/black-smoker-piccard-hydrothermal-5000-meters-mid-cayman-rise-whoi-bg.jpg","news_site":"SpaceDaily","summary":"Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026\n\n\nThe giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, but none has captured scientific attention quite like Europa, which likely hides a global salty ocean beneath an icy crust that may contain twice as much water as all of Earth's oceans combined. A new modeling study led by Washington University in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) suggests that, despite this ocean,","published_at":"2026-01-21T13:11:03Z","updated_at":"2026-01-21T12:00:14.736834Z","featured":false,"launches":[],"events":[]},{"id":35545,"title":"Europa ice delamination may deliver nutrients to hidden ocean","authors":[{"name":"SpaceDaily","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Europa_ice_delamination_may_deliver_nutrients_to_hidden_ocean_999.html","image_url":"https://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/jupiter-moons-europa-chaos-terrains-shuttling-oxygen-to-ocean-bg.jpg","news_site":"SpaceDaily","summary":"Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026\n\n\nA new geophysics study proposes a mechanism that could move life-sustaining nutrients from the battered surface of Europa down into its buried global ocean, improving the odds that the Jovian moon could support microbial life. \n\nEuropa, one of Jupiters largest moons, holds more liquid water beneath its frozen shell than all of Earths oceans combined, but the ocean is sealed away under thick","published_at":"2026-01-21T13:11:03Z","updated_at":"2026-01-21T12:00:14.716254Z","featured":false,"launches":[],"events":[]},{"id":35176,"title":"Jupiter's moon Europa has a seafloor that may be quiet and lifeless","authors":[{"name":"SpaceDaily","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Jupiters_moon_Europa_has_a_seafloor_that_may_be_quiet_and_lifeless_999.html","image_url":"https://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/jupiter-moon-europa-ocean-ice-core-cutaway-bg.jpg","news_site":"SpaceDaily","summary":"St. Louis MO (SPX) Jan 06, 2026\n\n\nThe giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space scientists quite like Europa, an ice-shrouded world that is thought to possess a vast ocean of liquid salt water. For decades, scientists have wondered whether that ocean could harbor the right conditions for life, placing Europa near the top of the list of solar syst","published_at":"2026-01-07T14:12:22Z","updated_at":"2026-01-07T13:02:20.912839Z","featured":false,"launches":[],"events":[]},{"id":34849,"title":"Titan interior study points to thick slushy ice shell instead of global ocean","authors":[{"name":"SpaceDaily","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.saturndaily.com/reports/Titan_interior_study_points_to_thick_slushy_ice_shell_instead_of_global_ocean_999.html","image_url":"https://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/cassini-titan-infrared-surface-beneath-foggy-atmosphere-bg.jpg","news_site":"SpaceDaily","summary":"Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025\r\n\r\n\r\nCareful reanalysis of measurements gathered more than a decade ago indicates that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, likely lacks a vast liquid-water ocean beneath its ice, contrary to earlier interpretations of Cassini data. Instead, the work suggests that an icy journey downward from the surface would encounter extensive high-pressure ice, slushy layers, and pockets of meltwater closer to the rocky","published_at":"2025-12-18T04:03:35Z","updated_at":"2025-12-18T10:06:22.257985Z","featured":false,"launches":[{"launch_id":"16e4908a-564a-4019-89a9-0d64ee4caaaa","provider":"Launch Library 2"}],"events":[]},{"id":34834,"title":"NASA Study Suggests Saturn’s Moon Titan May Not Have Global Ocean","authors":[{"name":"NASA","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/saturn/saturn-moons/titan/nasa-study-suggests-saturns-moon-titan-may-not-have-global-ocean/","image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1-pia18410-cassini-titan-crop.jpg","news_site":"NASA","summary":"A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a vast water ocean below its hydrocarbon-rich surface. But reanalysis of mission data suggests a more complicated picture: Titan’s interior is more likely composed of ice, with layers of slush and small pockets of warm water that form […]","published_at":"2025-12-17T16:01:00Z","updated_at":"2025-12-17T16:10:06.852459Z","featured":false,"launches":[],"events":[]},{"id":34302,"title":"Newly Found Organics in Enceladus’ Plumes","authors":[{"name":"NASA","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/newly-found-organics-in-enceladus-plumes/","image_url":"https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/pia11688orig.jpg","news_site":"NASA","summary":"Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed tiger stripes near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in this image released on Feb. 23, 2010. A study published in October 2025 analyzed data from NASA’s Cassini mission and found evidence of previously undetected organic compounds in […]","published_at":"2025-11-28T18:11:02Z","updated_at":"2025-12-01T12:37:15.372399Z","featured":false,"launches":[{"launch_id":"16e4908a-564a-4019-89a9-0d64ee4caaaa","provider":"Launch Library 2"}],"events":[]},{"id":34213,"title":"Looking inside icy moons","authors":[{"name":"SpaceDaily","socials":null}],"url":"https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Looking_inside_icy_moons_999.html","image_url":"https://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/saturn-moon-mimas-rings-bg.jpg","news_site":"SpaceDaily","summary":"Davis, CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2025\r\n\r\n\r\nThe outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky core and could be the best places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. 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