For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has been cast as one of the solar system’s best bets for alien life, a world with a global ...

A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to ...

For decades, Europa has been the optimistic counterpoint to a lonely solar system, a small icy world that seemed to tick ...

NASA launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft in 2024 with the goal of investigating whether conditions favorable for life ...

Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.

A new study is skeptical that life could still be present on Jupiter's moon Europa, where a NASA spacecraft launched in ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...

Europa has long been the darling of the search for life beyond Earth. The reason is simple: beneath its cracked, icy shell ...

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans combined. The presence of all this water, a key ingredient for life, has ...

The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...