kept liquid by friction produced as Europa is kneaded by Jupiter’s powerful gravity. Over the past few decades scientists have become steadily more excited about the life-bearing potential of ...

If life forms exist on Europa, they might look like microbes ... Now, NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is currently flying around Jupiter and its moons, has taken the most precise estimate of ...

A vast ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa contains all the ingredients for life, according to new research. Aliens really could be living under its surface - just like in space thriller Europa Report ...

NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...

Europa is one ... gravitational pull of Jupiter and its other moons. There may be a large volume of liquid water below the icy surface which could support some form of life. Titan is the largest ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa ... oceans exist on Jupiter’s moons Ganymede and Callisto and Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus. Liquid water is essential for life as we know it, which ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will soon launch to explore Jupiter's icy moon ... investigating potential regions where life could exist beneath the surface. It will search for thermal activity and ...

Other moons of Jupiter, like Europa and Ganymede ... if subsurface channels were warmed by lava flows. Life could potentially exist in a spore-like form, where it springs to life when at the ...

Sixty-seven orbits of Jupiter. Two close-ups of its moon Europa—where astrobiologists think microbial life may exist—21 flybys of far-out Callisto, and nine months in orbit around the biggest ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This highly stylized view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was created by reprocessing an image captured ... [+] by JunoCam during ...