Jupiter, the giant of our Solar System, remains one of the most fascinating and mysterious planets to explore. With its ...

The deep-sea volcanoes beneath Earth’s oceans may offer vital clues in the search for alien life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

Now, humanity is poised to get a closer look at Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon. At 12:06 p.m. ET on Monday, NASA launched a new mission to Europa, dubbed Europa Clipper.

Callisto, Jupiter's moon, is likely an ocean world, with evidence suggesting a subsurface ocean beneath its ice shell. Reanalysis of Galileo spacecraft data, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life. It ...

NASA JPL’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest planetary probe ever built, will launch as early as Friday to explore Jupiter’s icy ocean moon. Oct. 9, 2024 ...

Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be life.

Among vehicles that have visited the moon are NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11, which flew by Jupiter in the early 1970s, as well as the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1979. NASA's Juno spacecraft has been ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life. It ...

Like Europa, Jupiter’s jumbo moon Ganymede is thought to host an underground ocean. But its frozen shell is much thicker — possibly 100 miles thick — making it tougher to probe the ...

NASA on Monday approved next month’s launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa after reviewing the spacecraft’s ability to withstand the intense radiation there.

This image made available by NASA in 2014 shows Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in a reprocessed color view, made from images captured by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.