One of Jupiter's 95 known moons, Europa is almost the size of our own moon. It’s encased in an ice sheet estimated to be 10 miles to 15 miles or more (15 kilometers to 24 kilometers) thick.

One day after launching a Starship rocket on a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on Monday, sending a $5.2 billion NASA probe on a 1.8-billion-mile ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...

Other moons of Jupiter, like Europa and Ganymede, have been considered far more likely candidates. That’s largely down to the fact that those moons play host to subsurface oceans. Given that we ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has made significant progress with the successful deployment of its magnetometer boom, a key step in its exploration of Jupiter's moon Europa. The magnetometer boom ...