The cracked surface of Europa, newly colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Orion Moon Europa Clipper might be in launch limbo thanks to Hurricane Milton, but NASA is still building hype around the ...

In the moon’s northern hemisphere, a 20,000-square-kilometer hunk of landscape was missing. Like a torn photograph placed so that the pieces overlap, Europa’s crisscrossing surface fractures ...

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On Oct. 2, NASA shared the view below, which was taken from data gathered by the Galileo mission in 1998. It shows a close-up of Europa's chaotic landscape, which is evidence that something below ...

Europa Clipper is not designed to detect life itself, and the mission is unlikely to find direct evidence of living organisms. But by studying the moon’s chemical composition, geologic activity ...

The moon is considered a good candidate for possibly hosting alien life. It will be the target of NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission , set to launch in 2024. Juno's work is giving scientists a ...

New analysis has found a source of carbon within Europa, Jupiter's moon that is believed to hold massive amounts of liquid water. This view of the moon was created from images taken by NASA's ...

Sharpest Earth-based images of Europa and Ganymede reveal their icy landscape The images provide new insights into the chemical composition of two of Jupiter’s moons.

Put in plain language, astrophysicists have figured out why Jupiter's moon Europa looks so fucked up. The frozen moon's surface is a layer of solid ice ...

It'll also look for signs that Europa could possibly be hosting some form of life. There may be more than chaos lurking in the moon's strange terrain. Jaw-dropping Jupiter: NASA's Juno mission ...

The moon is believed to be encrusted with a 10-to-15-mile-thick ice shell. Sunlight cannot penetrate more than a few meters. Europa’s surface temperatures at its equator at midday never rise ...

Europa Clipper might be in launch limbo thanks to Hurricane Milton, but NASA is still building hype around the mission. Before the agency sends Europa Clipper to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, it ...