Jupiter’s moon Europa has long been a favorite in the search for life beyond Earth, and fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft is sharpening that intrigue. New analyses of the moon’s ice shell, hidden ...
Jupiter's icy moon Europa is an ocean world encased beneath a thick crust of ice -- a place where snow floats upward. The underwater snow forms in the global ocean and travels up though the water to ...
Jupiter’s moon Europa has long looked like a frozen cue ball, its bright shell of ice hiding a global ocean that many astrobiologists see as one of the most promising places for life beyond Earth. New ...
Europa might not be the best place to look for alien life in the solar system after all. A new study modeling what the floor of the Jupiter moon's hidden ocean is like concluded that tectonic activity ...
Jupiter’s moon Europa is a fascinating world, with a global subsurface ocean encased in an icy shell and plumes of water that vent into space. A new study has simulated how these plumes might ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cube-shaped spacecraft with two solar panels above a white moon streaked with red lines. In October, NASA's scheduled to launch ...
In the search for life elsewhere in the solar system, Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is perhaps the most exciting target for planetary scientists and astrobiologists. That’s chiefly because it has a thick ...
How do you solve a problem like Europa? We are almost certain there is a vast and potentially habitable ocean of water beneath the icy crust of this moon of Jupiter, but actually getting there and ...
On Jupiter’s Moon Europa: Oceans, Lakes — and Even Life?Jupiter’s Moon Europa May Have Lakes — and Even Life?Jupiter’s Moon Europa May Have Lakes and Hold Life For a scientific paper, the study just ...
Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become heavy enough to break free and sink through Europa’s icy shell, delivering ...
Jupiter’s moon Europa is a prime candidate in the search for life. The frozen moon has a subsurface ocean, and evidence indicates it’s warm, salty, and rich in life-enabling chemistry. New research ...