For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has been cast as one of the solar system’s best bets for alien life, a world with a global ...

Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.

A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to ...

A recent study questions the potential for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa, citing a lack of active faulting on its seafloor ...

A new study is skeptical that life could still be present on Jupiter's moon Europa, where a NASA spacecraft launched in ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

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For decades, Europa has been the optimistic counterpoint to a lonely solar system, a small icy world that seemed to tick ...

Data from a NASA planetary mission have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water, equal in volume to the North American Great Lakes, beneath the icy surface of Jupiter ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Chemistryexperiments in the lab have mimicked the conditions on Jupiter's icy moonEuropa, ...

Europa, a moon of Jupiter, appears as a thick crescent in this enhanced-color image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 1995. The view combines images taken in violet ...

A hugely exciting paper in the journal Nature Astronomy today suggests that signs of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa may be relatively easy to find, as it may exist just centimeters below the surface.