Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

During its flybys, the probe will measure the moon’s magnetic and gravity fields, providing information about Europa’s interior composition to help resolve such debates. While Clipper is not ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

NASA Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Europa, but it has some stops to make before it investigates the habitability of ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, featuring SwRI’s MASPEX and UVS instruments, seeks to uncover clues about life-supporting ...

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

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

Characterize the geology of Europa. Goal number two is closest to the heart of the SETI Institute’s mission — determining whether the icy moon and its subsurface ... to unlock clues about its ocean ...

The huge spacecraft is headed toward the icy moon Europa, where it will use an array of instruments to survey for geologic activity, magnetism and more ...

This won't be Europa, but rather the largest moon in the solar system ... and Europa could provide this via the weathering of its rocky interior. "Water dissolves nutrients for organisms to ...

Warmth from Europa’s interior and tidal energy from Jupiter likely maintain a massive liquid ocean beneath the moon’s icy surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael Carroll Europa, Ganymede ...