As the years go by, the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But it's not out of contention yet.

The Juno probe made the closest pass in 22 years of Jupiter's icy moon Europa on Thursday (Sept. 29), providing the best view of the ocean world since the NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by it 2000.

All of Jupiter's moons are named for the god's lovers (or victims, depending on your point of view). In Greek mythology, Europa was abducted by Zeus (the counterpart of the Roman god Jupiter), who ...

These pictures and the data they gathered offered the first hints that a global ocean may be beneath Europa's icy crust. Moreover, planetary models indicated that Europa's interactions with ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, has captivated scientists for decades with the tantalizing idea that it could harbor life beneath its frozen crust. Now, new discoveries from Earth’s ...

Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are ... orbiting Jupiter today and has provided scientists with an unprecedented view into Jupiter’s composition, structure and space environment.

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

The space agency offers a continuous live view of Europa Clipper’s assembly on its website. Technicians will use electron beams to stencil the names on the dime-size silicon chips at JPL’s ...

The Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to ...

If there's life on Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus, it could have a network of deep-sea hydrothermal vents to thank for its existence, new research suggests. When you purchase ...

When the uncrewed orbiter reaches the moon by 2030, it will begin the task of mapping and scanning above and beneath Europa's surface to determine whether the celestial body is indeed habitable.