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-called ...

For Europa, the closest analogs we can find are the deep-sea hydrothermal vents. These are fissures in the ocean floor where super-heated, mineral-rich gases escape into the ocean.

Europa Clipper is NASA's mission to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and determine whether its underground ocean is habitable. The mission launched on Oct. 14, 2024, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is scheduled for launch on October 10, 2024, from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The mission aims to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s ...

A mission that will investigate the potential habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system — Jupiter’s moon Europa — has lifted off.

Liftoff of Falcon Heavy with Europa Clipper, unveiling the mysteries of an enormous ocean lurking beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa.” “And there we heard the call for Max Q.

NASA launches Europa Clipper to probe Jupiter moon 05:17. One day after launching a Starship rocket on a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on ...

These tidal forces appear to have melted some of the ice below Europa’s frozen surface, giving it a suspected vast ocean that surrounds its entire core, first hinted at in magnetic field data ...

04/25/2025 By Lynne Schaufenbil. Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, May 1 at 11 a.m. for the seminar "What lies beneath Europa’s ice shell: linking interior ...

If the mantle-ocean boundary is active, then Europa has three of the four needed-for-life boxes checked. There's water, there's energy, and there's physics.

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon is not looking for life, but will see if life could be possible there. It’s a step that could help the bigger hunt beyond our solar system.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's ocean moon is not looking for life, but will see if life could be possible there. It's a step that could help the bigger hunt beyond our solar system.