Europa
Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Takes A Small Step To Seek Habitable Worlds
It takes years of painstaking work to get a spacecraft off the ground. So when you have a spacecraft like…
NASA’s “Remastered” View of Europa is the Best Yet
Europa, Jupiter's sixth-closest moon, has long been a source of fascination and wonder for astronomers. Not only is it unique…
Tiny Satellites Could Hitchhike To Europa With Bigger NASA Mission Concept
When you've got a $2 billion mission concept to head to Europa, it's likely a good idea to pack as…
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Gallery: 5 Exotic Places NASA’s Next-Generation Rocket Could Help Explore
TORONTO, CANADA - Could NASA's new rocket bring a probe to sample the geysers of Saturn's moon Enceladus, or ferry…
Could Plate Tectonics Create Cracks And Odd Terrain In Cold Europa’s Crust?
Mysteries abound on icy Europa, that cold moon of Jupiter. Even years after the Galileo spacecraft finished its mission in…
Targeting Icy Europa: NASA Seeks Ideas To Explore Potentially Habitable Moon
What lies beneath the cracked, thick ice on the surface of Europa? NASA is hoping to fly a mission to…
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The Search for Alien Life Could Get A Boost From NASA’s Next-Generation Rocket
In three years, NASA is planning to light the fuse on a huge rocket designed to bring humans further out…
A New Image of Europa Emerges
Eureka – it's Europa! And a brand-new image of it, too! (Well, kinda sorta.) The picture above, showing the icy moon's…
Lithopanspermia: How Earth May Have Seeded Life on Other Solar System Bodies
With the recent discovery that Europa has geysers, and therefore definitive proof of a liquid ocean, there’s a lot of…
Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Erupting from Europa
It's been known since 2005 that Saturn's 300-mile-wide moon Enceladus has geysers spewing ice and dust out into orbit from…