A NASA mission to explore a Jupiter moon believed to be one of our galaxy's most promising locations to search for life-supporting conditions is at long last underway. The Europa Clipper launched ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Europa is objectively one of the most badass moons in the solar system. The relatively small moon of Jupiter is thought to have a liquid water ocean beneath its icy shell, and it's considered one ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself as it makes its way to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency's ...

Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon. Europa is an icy moon that is reported to have an underground ocean and a potentially liveable environment. To test those theories, the National Aeronautics ...

One of those days will bring it close to Europa, among 95 known moons at Jupiter and close to our own moon in size. The spacecraft will skim as low as 16 miles (25 kilometers) above Europa ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has made significant progress with the successful deployment of its magnetometer boom, a key step in its exploration of Jupiter's moon Europa. The magnetometer boom ...

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 ...

They say their research, part-funded by NASA, may reveal how life could persist in faraway places, such as on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The team explained that the chemistry in the American ...

The lava is kept hot and flowing thanks to the tidal forces experienced by Io, thanks to Jupiter itself and nearby moons Europa and Ganymede. It’s possible that the small moon may have once held ...