NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to ...

Whether microbial life exists in that ocean is unknown, but the Europa Clipper's instruments will try to find out if it's at least possible. "Europa is an ice covered moon of Jupiter, about the ...

If life exists deep within Europa, sunlight would be hard to come by. The moon’s icy shell is thought to be over six miles thick, with an ocean lying beneath that stretches over 60 miles into ...

Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its ... "It is possible that Europa's ocean can support life because we know that it hosts the key ingredients to support it, those being ...

liquid ocean of Enceladus from hydrothermal activity on the seafloor. A suspected plume of material erupted two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Both plumes ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa." Today (March ...

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 ...

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.

Its icy surface has long intrigued scientists, with evidence suggesting it's covered in a massive, salty subsurface ocean ... Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) — which will also be exploring Europa ...