A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft, named Europa Clipper, will determine if conditions there could support life.
"It's a chance for us to explore not a world that might have been habitable billions of years ago, but a world that might be ...
NASA is set to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa, considered one of our solar system's most promising spots to ...
Io, Jupiter's moon, continues to reveal itself. The latest images transmitted by the Juno spacecraft offer an unprecedented view of its tumultuous surface. The Juno mission made a surprising discovery ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is home to a fascinating array of moons. Among its 90-plus satellites, one ...
It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...
Several space probes have obtained intriguing images of the surface, but what lies beneath remains a mystery. The discovery ...
Within our solar system, gas emissions from Jupiter's volcanic moon Io create a similar phenomenon. Although no exomoons (moons of planets outside our solar system) have been confirmed ...
New research from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory suggests there may be a volcanic moon orbiting a planet 635 light-years ...