The new work is likely of interest to NASA, which plans to launch a Europa spacecraft in 2024. The mission, called Europa Clipper, will orbit Jupiter but study the moon and its buried ocean over ...

One man thinks the gas giant could be among the most likely places to find life beyond Earth. It sounds crazy, but many of his other predictions have come true. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm that has been continuously observed since 1830, still remains a mystery to NASA and much of the scientific community, but the discovery of water clouds may lead ...

This microscope could look for life on Jupiter’s moon This microscope could look for life on Jupiter’s moon. By Sarah Scoles. An experiment hinted at Martian life in the ’70s.

A moon circling Jupiter has sent up a plume of water vapor. It may be telling astronomers that there’s life there or at least a way of finding out if there is.

One of Jupiter’s 95 known moons, Europa is almost the size of our own moon. It’s encased in an ice sheet estimated to be 10 miles to 15 miles or more (15 kilometers to 24 kilometers) thick.

A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft, named Europa Clipper, will determine if conditions there could support life.

As the Jupiter Life-Saving Station was closing, the Spanish-American War in 1898 prompted the U.S. military to develop the Coast Signal Service, ...