Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter that harbors an ocean and might support alien life. Despite several flyby missions of Europa, no full geologic map of the moon previously existed. Scientists released ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is regarded as one of the most likely places in the solar system to find extraterrestrial life, but where to look for evidence of it? To aid future space missions, a team of ...

Astronomers have created the first global thermal map of Jupiter's icy moon Europa by using images taken with the ALMA observatory in Chile. The new series of four images of Europa have a resolution ...

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Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is one of the most fascinating places in the solar system. A little smaller than Earth's moon, Europa is has subsurface water where—just maybe—life could exist. The problem ...

A potential NASA life-hunting mission to the surface of Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa is really starting to take shape. The stationary Europa lander would use three different instrument suites ...

A team has used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe Jupiter's moon, Europa, at ultraviolet wavelengths, filling in a 'gap' in the various wavelengths used to observe this icy water world. The team's ...