Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 ...

See the stars captured by Europa Clipper's star trackers, NASA's spacecraft currently on its way to Jupiter's icy moon.

Enigmatic Europa One of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, Europa has long fascinated scientists. Some 90 percent the size of our own Moon, the satellite is believed to host a global ocean of liquid ...

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 ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa is the subject of much speculation about extraterrestrial life, which could exist in the ocean buried beneath the body’s icy surface. Now researchers suggest that a small ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...

The moon is so volcanic because of tidal forces caused by gravitational interactions with Jupiter and its other large moons, Europa and Ganymede. Using its Microwave Radiometer, Juno detected heat ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there ...