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 ...

Europa Clipper, the largest planetary science mission ever launched by NASA, will travel 1.8 billion miles and spend four ...

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An imposing National Aeronautics and Space Administration probe is due to lift off on Monday on a five-and-a-half-year ...

An outer ice shell marked by "chaos terrain," a vast ocean, cryovolcanoes, misty plumes, gravitational tides and intense ...

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 ...

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 ...

a mission set to explore the workings of another ... ridges crisscross Europa in this color composite view from NASA’s Galileo probe, hinting at deeper geological activity that has cracked ...