Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Today (March 1), NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will ... The probe's destination is Europa, a moon of Jupiter coated with a shell of ice that conceals a vast, presumably salty ocean.

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself as it makes its way to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency's ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission set sail last year and should reach Jupiter and its moons in 2030, while the European Space Agency's JUICE mission should arrive in 2031. Both missions will almost ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa," Ben Bradley, Europa Clipper mission planner at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...