One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in ...

The icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed.. This phenomena, the team explained, is heightened in so ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

It is NASA’s first mission to Europa to determine if the moon has conditions suitable to support life. Clipper will orbit Jupiter when it arrives in 2030, conducting 49 flybys of Europa.

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search for life, but rather determine whether conditions ...

First, some facts. Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun, is between Mars and Saturn. It’s the largest planet in the solar system, big enough for more than 1,000 Earths to fit inside, with room ...

The smooth, lightly scratched surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, photographed by the Juno spacecraft in 2022, shows no sign of what lies beneath: in all likelihood, a vast saltwater ocean.

With such a map, the Europa Clipper will be able to orient itself for the long trek to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. As such, onboard are a pair of small cameras called star trackers, which capture ...

DT NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is currently on its long journey through the solar system, headed for Jupiter’s icy moon of Europa. There, it’s hoping to find whether Europa could ever ...

The moon and Jupiter — the solar system's largest planet — will remain visible into the early morning of Jan. 11, until they sink below the western horizon around 3:47 a.m. EST (0847 GMT).