In approximately five billion years, as the Sun transforms into a red giant, it will engulf Earth. However, a new study suggests this event could briefly make Jupiter's moon, Europa, habitable. As the ...

In approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer a temporary refuge. Research suggests Europa's icy shell will sublimate, ...

A series of experiments support spectral data recently collected by the James Webb Space Telescope that found evidence that the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is constantly changing. Europa ...

When we see evidence of CO 2 at the surface, we think it must have come from an ocean below the surface. The evidence for a liquid ocean underneath Europa's icy shell is mounting, which makes this ...

An artist's depiction of Jupiter, at left, and its massive moon Ganymede in the foreground. ... Beneath its surface lies a liquid ocean, likely 50-100 km deep, covered by an icy crust.

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, ... keeping its subsurface crust in liquid magma form that seeks any available ... NASA's Juno mission gets look under surface of Jupiter, Io.

S cott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers have discovered a "shape-recovering liquid" that appears to defy the laws of ...

The 3D picture of Jupiter’s troposphere shows that the majority of the weather systems on Jupiter are shallow, reaching only 10 to 20 kilometers below the visible cloud deck or “surface” of the planet ...

On Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down Strange as it may seem, slushy hailstones of ammonia and water may form on all gas giant planets Date: ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there ...