The Juno probe made the closest pass in 22 years of Jupiter's icy moon Europa on Thursday (Sept. 29), providing the best view of the ocean world since the NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by it 2000 ...

Jupiter’s moon, Europa, might have one of the best chances of supporting life in our solar system. And now, scientists at NASA have captured the closest images of the natural satellite in over ...

NASA plans to launch Europa Clipper on Oct. 10, 2024, to conduct "detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life." ...

A conception of the Europa Clipper spacecraft flying by the Jovian moon, Europa, with dominant Jupiter in the distance. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The brains of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft ...

NASA's Juno mission found that Jupiter's icy moon Europa produces 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours. ... This diagram shows the subsurface ocean lurking beneath Europa's frozen crust.

Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be ...

NASA's about to launch a huge spacecraft to a world harboring voluminous seas.. Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter's moon Europa contains an ocean at least twice the size of Earth's. The Europa ...

Europa is an icy ocean world—and NASA is finally going to explore it. For the first time, NASA is journeying to this mysterious moon to determine if it might be able to host alien life.

On Oct. 14 NASA’s Europa Clipper was launched from Kennedy Space Center to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa. It will arrive at Jupiter in April 2030. Europa is believed to have a subsurface ...

Europa Clipper will face a challenge once it reaches the planet's moon — exposure to radiation, since the moon is within Jupiter’s magnetic field.