Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life. NASA's Europa Clipper mission is on a quest to investigate whether the ...

Three key ingredients are needed for life as we know it: essential elements like carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur; an energy source, and liquid water. Though Europa is only the size of our own moon ...

returned an immense amount of water vapor erupting from Europa’s surface at a rate of 2,360 kg per second – enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool within minutes. Despite this tremendous ...

The study published in the journal Nature Astronomy show that they detected water releasing from Europa by 2,360 kilograms per second, enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool within minutes. The ...

And where there is water, there could be ... Jupiter and close to our own moon in size. The spacecraft will skim as low as 16 miles (25 kilometers) above Europa — much closer than the few ...