One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

setting up 49 close flybys of the frigid moon Europa, an ice-covered world with an interior warmed by the relentless squeezing of Jupiter's gravity as it swings around the giant planet in a ...

NASA recently launched a mission aimed to see if the ingredients for life exist on Jupiter's ice covered moon Europa ...

Deep down, in an ocean beneath its ice shell, Jupiter's moon Europa might be temperate and nutrient-rich, an ideal environment for some form of life—what scientists would call "habitable." ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, using star trackers to navigate and ensure a smooth journey to its 2030 destination.

Scientists suspect that the ice-encrusted Jupiter moon, Europa, is potentially inhabitable. Current data indicate that it likely has liquid water present under the ice, suggesting a heat source within ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

The image, which NASA released last week, showcases over 93 by 125 miles of surface region on the moon. The space ... features found within the ice that makes up Europa’s surface.

Europa. The name of Jupiter's icy moon has spread around the world as a hopeful candidate for life elsewhere in our solar system. If it's there, a new NASA-funded research alliance called Oceans ...

The spacecraft will skim as low as 16 miles (25 km) above Europa — much closer than the few previous visitors. Onboard radar will attempt to penetrate the moon's ice sheet, believed to be 10 ...