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ARCHIMEDES: Digging into the ice on Europa with lasers
To explore Europa for signs of life, NASA in investing in a number of technologies, which includes a laser-mining concept…
Life on Europa Would be Protected by Just a Few Centimeters of Ice
Thanks to a new study led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, future missions to Europa will be more likely to…
NASA Simulation Shows How Europa’s “Fossil Ocean” Rises to the Surface Over Time
A new study by a team from NASA JPL has shown how Europa's interior ocean rises to the surface slowly…
New Research Raises Hopes for Finding Life on Mars, Pluto and Icy Moons
A new research study conducted by an international team of researchers indicates that life can survive in a variety of…
Scientists Find that Earth Bacteria Could Thrive on Enceladus
A recent study by a team of German scientists has demonstrated that a certain strain of Earth bacteria could survive…
Icy Worlds Like Europa and Enceladus Might Actually be too Soft to Land On
According to a new study led by the Planetary Science Institute, Europa and Enceladus may have surfaces that are too…
There Could be Hundreds More Icy Worlds with Life Than on Rocky Planets Out There in the Galaxy
According to a new study by members of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, there could be
New Study Says Enceladus has had an Internal Ocean for Billions of Years
A new study by an international team of researchers has shown that Enceladus has been producing enough energy in its…
Europa Lander Could Carry a Microphone and “Listen” to the Ice to Find Out What’s Underneath
A research team from Arizona State University is developing a seismometer that could be mounted a lander mission to Europa…
NASA’s Plans to Explore Europa and Other “Ocean Worlds”
At the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop this week, NASA made a series of presentations outlining plants to explore Europa…