If life exists on the icy ocean moons Enceladus and Europa, detectable traces of molecules could survive just below their frozen surface. Scientists have long theorized that both Enceladus, one…
This artist's impression depicts NASA's Cassini spacecraft flying through a cloud of suspected water erupting from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Credit: NASANASA researchers have found that amino acidspotential…
BUSAN, South Korea - The head of NASA's science directorate says he remains optimistic that the Europa Clipper mission will launch on schedule in October despite concerns about the spacecraft's…
NASA's Europa Clipper, pictured in this illustration, which was updated in December 2020, will orbit Jupiter on an elliptical trajectory, dipping close to its moon Europa on each flyby to…
Low-temperature hydrothermal vents can survive on the dark ocean floors of moons like Jupiter's Europa for potentially billions of years, new computer simulations show, as astrobiologists seek to understand whether…
Features on Europa's surface suggest that the icy crust is at the mercy of the waters below. Most importantly, a recent visit to Juno reveals what might be jet activity…
When NASA Juno spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiterit's the moon Europe in September 2022, it caught evidence not only of pockets of salty water associated with the world's…
An artist rendering of the BepiColombo mission, a joint ESA/JAXA project that will take two spacecraft into the harsh environment of Mercury. ESA This week, the European Space Agency released…