Galileo, which orbited Jupiter between 1995 and 2003, flew close to Europa several times, offering humanity its first ...

A frozen “ocean world” is the likeliest place in the solar system to foster alien life. Louise Prockter and her colleagues ...

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today ...

But in the mid-1990s, NASA’s Galileo mission flew close to the moon and spotted geological wonders. It had patches of ‘chaos’ terrain, which looked like fields of icebergs frozen in place ...

Ever since the Galileo spacecraft flew by Jupiter's icy moons in 1989, scientists interested in life beyond our planet have been desperate to go back. Europa Clipper, which blasted off from ...

NASA and SpaceX have launched NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Planetary scientists have grown increasingly certain that Europa hosts a subsurface ocean ever since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft visited Jupiter in the 1990s (SN: 2/18/02). “During the Galileo ...

These plumes have been tentatively detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and in data from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from December 1995 to September 2003. With a little luck ...

Nasa’s mission to a Galilean moon of Jupiter that’s encrusted in a thick shell of ice will let us know if its bulky ocean has ...

While the Europa Clipper "cannot detect life directly", said James O'Donoghue, a planetary astronomy expert from Reading ...

To keep up to date with the latest mission developments check out our Europa Clipper live updates blog. Discovered in 1610 by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, Europa is one of the most ...

Clipper isn’t the first mission to explore the icy moon. The Galileo probe flew past it in the 1990s, confirming scientists’ hopes that the moon was more than the quiet rocky ball orbiting Earth.