Europa, a moon of Jupiter, appears as a thick crescent in this enhanced-color image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 1995. The view combines images taken in violet ...

A team of engineers in Germany has developed a laser-based drill that could change the way humanity explores the icy worlds ...

Europa, the enigmatic moon of Jupiter, is believed to be home to a subsurface ocean of liquid water. However, future missions to explore Europa’s ocean may need to dig deep. Research suggests that ...

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Researchers from Technische Universität Dresden developed a compact laser drill capable of penetrating ice efficiently, ...

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Europa is more than just one of Jupiter’s many moons – it’s also one of most promising places in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Under 10 kilometers of ice is a liquid water ocean ...

SwRI is leading two “Precursor Science Investigations for Europa” teams to understand critical topics in advance of NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to the Jupiter moon. Both projects are investigating ...

Astronomers using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide in a specific region on the icy surface of Europa. Jupiter's moon Europa is one of a handful of worlds in ...

The Europa SUrface Dust Analyzer, developed at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will investigate Jupiter’s icy moon Next year, technology developed at CU Boulder will begin a journey ...

The problem is that Europa is the only world in the solar system that's not ours to explore. As the monolith said: "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them ...