Often a top target of habitability research, Europa is exciting as a potential host for life because it is thought to have a liquid water ocean — although this ocean is beneath an icy crust up ...

"Therefore, we need to care that Europa’s ocean lays beneath the asthenosphere, not the lithosphere." Scientists think the best place to find life beyond Earth is in the presence of water ...

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 ...

NASA scientists have confirmed, for the first time, the existence of water above the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's 79 moons. The study published in the journal Nature Astronomy show that they ...

“Nobody does.” Water water everywhere – Europa edition: Europa has, for several decades, been a tantalizing target in the search for potential life elsewhere in the solar system other than ...