Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

If this sounds familiar, it’s likely because Saturn’s ice-covered ... its frosty crust. To get an idea of how life could potentially thrive in the inky black depths of Europa, the researchers ...

Knowing the thickness of that crust could, therefore ... them to make an educated estimate of the thickness of Europa’s ice. The research team found that the impacts formed graben-like features ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Europa. The name of Jupiter's icy moon has spread around the world as a hopeful candidate for life elsewhere in our solar system. If it's there, a new NASA-funded research alliance called Oceans ...

Only some 60 million years old, Europa's brittle surface appears to be in constant flux. Energy-rich compounds there could reach the ocean as pieces of the crust slide under each other.

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...