Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to investigate.

NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean ...

Earth might seem special in this regard but water is actually fairly abundant in our system, and Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is quickly becoming a prime candidate in the search for life.

Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry ...

NASA installed the solar array for the Europa Clipper spacecraft, a robotic craft with a mission to reach Jupiter’s moon Europa by 2030. The large moon is one of 95 that orbit Jupiter ...

One of those days will bring it close to Europa, among 95 known moons at Jupiter and close to our own moon in size. The spacecraft will skim as low as 16 miles (25 kilometers) above Europa ...

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Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, may harbor extraterrestrial life in the form of microbes. But detecting it ...

NASA engineer Rayme Traub, from Sherrard, will discuss his scientific contributions as part of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s event “The Search for Life in the Universe.” ...

They say their research, part-funded by NASA, may reveal how life could persist in faraway places, such as on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The team explained that the chemistry in the American ...