Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa." Today (March ...

It was a history making launch -- when NASA’s Europa Clipper embarked on its long five-year voyage to Jupiter. The $5 billion spacecraft is the largest ever built for a mission headed to another ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

In the 1990s, however, NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured magnetic measurements near Callisto that suggested that its ice shell surface—much like that of Europa, another moon of Jupiter—may ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission set sail last year and should reach Jupiter and its moons in 2030, while the European Space Agency's JUICE mission should arrive in 2031. Both missions will almost ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

The European Space Agency’s JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission is also set to take a good look at what’s going on out there. In fact, it’s more: NASA believe Europa could well have ...

Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice VII. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has recorded the most powerful volcanic ...