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 ...

Jupiter's largest moons, known as the Galilean moons, are Io, Europa, Ganymede ... making it the most ancient surface in the Solar System. It may also have a subsurface ocean beneath its icy ...

In order of their distance from Jupiter, they are the volcanic Io (which is so close that it ... of the moon each time to survey the entire surface. NASA is sending a spacecraft to investigate ...

Jupiter has 95 moons and Io, which Galileo discovered through a ... Pettine broke down Juno's flyby maps to establish complex volcanic surface patterns. Matching her work against theory, she ...