One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide ...

A NASA mission to explore a Jupiter moon believed to be one of our galaxy's most promising locations to search for life-supporting conditions is at long last underway. The Europa Clipper launched ...

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

As its name suggests, the mission’s target is Europa, one of the biggest of Jupiter’s 95 known moons. Europa is a snowball slightly smaller than Earth’s moon. It has an atmosphere that is ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently ... explore the interior oceans of these icy moons. One such project, called SWIM (Sensing With Independent Micro ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

But many theories exist that subsurface oceans could exist, which is why NASA has launched the Europa Clipper last October, which will hunt for signs of life on Jupiter’s moon when it arrives in ...

As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter reflects a lot of the Sun’s light even though it is more than five times ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is testing SWIM robots to potentially explore the subsurface oceans of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, believed to contain conditions suitable for life.

NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter Oct. 14 ... of data from the James Webb Space ... Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Not the Same One Cassini Observed in 1600s June 19, 2024 ...