New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

The icy surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has captured scientists' attention. Compounds like carbon dioxide and salt ...

Europa may host microbial life when the sun transforms into a red giant s Solar and Jupiter heat may melt Europa's ice and ...

In approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer ...

The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has ...

A series of experiments led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Ujjwal Raut support spectral data recently collected by the ...

Here’s how it works. Europa is one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, along with Io, Ganymede and Callisto. Astronomer Galileo Galilei gets the credit for discovering these Galilean moons ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian moon Europa in 2030 and spend several years collecting and ...

Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to the Jupiter moon Europa to search for evidence that the world could be habitable. Europa is an icy celestial body that scientists ...

Laboratory experiments have re-created the surface of Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter, with a surprising result — Europa glows in the dark. While we typically see the side of ...

The Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, made its closest approach yet to the moon Europa at 5:36 a.m. ET, flying within 219 miles (352 kilometers) of its icy surface.