People have long since wondered if any other planets in our solar system could house us and other life forms, and after decades of research, NASA thinks it might have found one: Europa, Jupiter's ...

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might host life. It was the 1980s, and Buratti was a graduate student at ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is one of the most promising targets in the search for life beyond Earth. In October 2024, NASA’s Europa Clipper will begin humanity's first dedicated mission to understand the ...

Right now, a spacecraft the size of a small truck is falling back toward Earth. It left Florida in the autumn of 2024, and it ...

If we’re going to find life on another world, Europa might just be our best bet. We think this icy moon of Jupiter has an ocean of water beneath its frozen surface, and it seems like this ocean might ...

Europa may be one of the best places in the Solar System to search for alien life, with a hidden ocean beneath its icy crust. Pioneer, Voyager, Juno, and future mission ideas show why reaching this ...

NASA has launched its Europa Clipper spacecraft, the biggest one it has ever built for a mission heading to another planet, on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in ...

A conception of NASA's Europa Clipper approaching the ice-covered world, Europa. Credit: NASA A NASA probe, the length of a basketball court, is headed to the tantalizing world Europa. "It's perhaps ...

Dozens gather on the lawn of the Kennedy Space Center press site to watch as a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off with NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Hot on ...

A mission to examine the habitability of Jupiter’s ocean-bearing moon Europa is taking one step closer to the launchpad, with the recent completion of a major NASA review. On Feb. 15, NASA’s Europa ...