A report on the potential science value of a lander on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has been delivered to NASA, and the agency is now engaging the broader science community to open a ...

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NASA’s originally planned lander to Europa was cancelled in 2023, but the technology behind it could be used to explore Enceladus instead, the organization has announced. Called the Europa Clipper, it ...

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What can the plumes on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, teach scientists about Europa potential habitability? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as an ...

What landing sites on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, would be the most ideal for searching for life on the small moon? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address ...

An artist's conception of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft flying by Jupiter's moon Europa. Some 480 million miles away, an ocean — harboring perhaps twice the water of Earth's seas — sloshes beneath ...

DellaGiustina said the team’s hope is that its instrument will be selected for NASA’s upcoming Europa lander mission. NASA is interested in Europa because it’s thought to have a subsurface ocean, ...

Recently, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide at a specific location on Europa’s icy surface in a disrupted “chaos terrain” called the Tara Regio. The ...

In the 1970s, NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean moons. These pictures and the data they gathered offered the ...

Some 480 million miles away, an ocean — harboring perhaps twice the water of Earth's seas — sloshes beneath the icy surface of Europa. NASA's going there. This moon of Jupiter has long intrigued ...