Something extraordinary might be happening on a moon millions of miles from Earth. Imagine a world where sunlight never ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has launched to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which may harbor a potentially habitable ocean ...

Europa is objectively one of the most badass moons in the solar system. The relatively small moon of Jupiter is thought to have a liquid water ocean beneath its icy shell, and it's considered one ...

The presence of ample hydrogen in the ocean means that microbes at the bottom ... The paper on Jupiter's Europa moon, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, contains the new Hubble ...

Though Europa is only the size of our own moon, it holds more water than all ... Energy-rich compounds there could reach the ocean as pieces of the crust slide under each other.

The mission aims to investigate whether the moon, believed to have a subsurface ocean, could support life. Europa is considered one of the most promising places to search for life beyond Earth.

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...

Equally important is the interaction between Europa's underground ocean and icy surface. In 2013, the Hubble Space Telescope saw water vapor above the moon's south pole, which scientists suspect ...

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

Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, may harbor extraterrestrial life in the form of microbes. But ...