Europa Clipper will serve as NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system, and it aims to determine whether the moon could be habitable for life ...

Now, it’s finally happening: A spacecraft bound for the icy world blasted off from ... material from within or below the ice sheet. (Explore Europa’s icy ocean through this interactive graphic.) ...

As the years go by, the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But it's not out of contention yet.

NASA's about to launch a huge spacecraft to a world harboring ... spacecraft flying by the ice-covered moon Europa. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech To prove whether an ocean exists and if it could ...

A conception of NASA's Europa Clipper approaching the ice-covered world ... But all life needs energy: Does this ocean world provide an energy source? And does it harbor the basic chemical ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, is a frozen world with a subsurface ocean. It intrigues scientists as a possible home ...

NASA’s Europa ... moon Europa, scanning below its ice-covered surface for conditions that could support life. Why Europa? The distant, ice-covered moon shows "strong evidence" of an ocean ...

It is now en route to its target: Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa, whose frozen shell ... Looking for life in an icy ocean world is a whole new kettle of (alien) fish, but exobiologists ...

Jupiter’s ice-covered ocean moon Europa floats above the planet’s Great Red Spot in this 1979 image from Voyager 1. This is a ...

linking interior structure to ocean circulation and biosignature detectability" by Kaushal Gianchandani Abstract: Europa, Jupiter’s ice-covered moon, likely harbors a subsurface ocean and is a key ...