Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is considered one of only a few bodies in our solar system that has the potential to host some form of life. It has a ocean deep beneath a frozen crust, which like ...

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 ...

Why NASA believes the Jovian moon could support life and how ... NASA's Europa Clipper mission aims to study Europa's shell thickness, composition, ... Europa was first discovered in 1610 by ...

An artist's rendition of NASA's Europa Clipper, a spacecraft set to launch for a flyby of Jupiter's ice moon in 2024. (Image credit: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.) ...

Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter and one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter. See more facts about Europa and its history here.

Under its bright, frosty shell, Jupiter’s moon Europa is thought to harbor a salty ocean, making it a world that might be one of the most habitable places in our solar system.

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 ...

Europa is an icy ocean world—and NASA is finally going to explore it. For the first time, NASA is journeying to this mysterious moon to determine if it might be able to host alien life.

The complex, ice-covered surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during a flyby on Sept. 29, 2022. ... obtaining data on its icy composition and temperature.

The ice on the surface of Jupiter's massive moon Europa is constantly changing, hinting at the presence of a subsurface ocean, new James Webb telescope observations reveal.

Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, may contain carbon, a key ingredient for life, data collected by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed.. Europa, the sixth-largest moon in the solar ...