Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

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, ...

Although the planet itself won't be habitable because ... Buried oceans may be common on icy exoplanets —Jupiter's ocean moon Europa may have less oxygen than we thought —10 weird water ...

Although the planet itself won't be habitable because ... outward as the sun begins this new phase of life. Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa will get a lot of heat. Not only will the giant ...

That's true for Europa, one of Jupiter's four largest moons ... As a Galilean moon, Europa orbits near the planet and within its strong magnetic field. Thus, the surface gets bombarded by radiation.

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ... built by NASA to investigate another planet. It will take 5 ½ years to reach Jupiter and will sneak within 16 miles of ...

Over the last few years, the term “Goldilocks Zone” has become widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

Learn how ice crystallizes on the surface of Europa, a moon of Jupiter, may hold promise for signs of extraterrestrial life within its subsurface ocean.

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

The fifth planet from the ... the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter itself. The largest moon in the solar system ...

A group of scientists said Thursday that they had found an astonishing diversity of micro-organisms in tiny pools of melted ...