One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

NASA's Juno probe is all set for a close flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Europa on Thursday (Sept. 29), which could possibly reveal tremendous new insights into Europa's crust and interior.

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer — "JUICE" for short — will use ground-penetrating radar and other instruments to remotely probe the tidally-heated oceans thought to exist under the ice-locked ...

The Solar System is a vast and mysterious realm, filled with planets, moons, asteroids, and icy bodies waiting to be ...

Europa, the superstar among Jupiter’s many moons 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 ...

Jupiter moon Europa's jagged ice towers could imperil robot landers By Mike Wall Space.com Senior Writer Space.com Published October 9, 2018 11:41am EDT ...

Jupiter might have its own little night light, in the form of an icy moon that glows in the dark. Like Earth’s lunar companion, the Jovian moon Europa shines brightly on its sunlight side.

This photo provided by the European Space Agency shows an Ariane rocket carrying the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, spacecraft lifting off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana ...

Tremors on Earth have helped scientists probe the interior of the planet, and shakeups on icy moons could do the same. By simulating icequakes on Jupiter’s icy moons Europa, Callisto, and ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa hides a liquid ocean, and conceivably life, under kilometers of ice. The challenge for engineers is how to penetrate that frozen barrier with technology that can be ...

For example, the moon's crust may harbor plates of ice, some of which dive beneath others in alien tectonic activity. Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, " Out There ," will be ...

A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could have buried oceans. The journey began with a morning liftoff by Europe&#821… ...