A mission that will investigate the potential habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system — Jupiter’s moon ...

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today ...

NASA and SpaceX have launched NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft is preparing to launch this week, aiming to discover if the hidden life exists on Jupiter's ...

An outer ice shell marked by "chaos terrain," a vast ocean, cryovolcanoes, misty plumes, gravitational tides and intense ...

Taking off no earlier than October 10, the spacecraft will repeatedly buzz Europa in search of water, energy and organic compounds.

Europa Clipper will assess whether Jupiter’s moon has the right ingredients to host life, and could illuminate the mysteries ...

The existence of a moon located outside our solar system has never been confirmed but a new NASA-led study may provide ...

New research done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals potential signs of a rocky, volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet ...

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Eruopa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean ...

And yet this is not front-page news. I didn’t really know how close we were to this milestone until I visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, Calif., on a hot and dry day in June.

NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute The tiny moon ... Despite the surface seeing a chilly minus 330 degrees Fahrenheit, Enceladus’ interior luxuriates at around 200 degrees Fahrenheit, thanks ...