It’s a long way from Tempe to Jupiter, but a thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way. First though, it made a crucial detour at Mars, millions of miles from the quiet lab where ...

A radar on a spacecraft, intended to investigate the mystery of an extraterrestrial ocean, was never completely tested in Earthly chambers because there wasn’t a chamber large enough on our planet.

For decades, an icy moon of Jupiter has been considered one of the most promising places to search for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Thought to have an underground ocean and a potentially ...

What landing sites on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, would be the most ideal for searching for life on the small moon? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address ...

Situated in orbit of the Jovian planet that is Jupiter lurks the mysterious Europa moon, a destination whose hypothetical 100 kilometer (62 mile) deep oceans may harbor the first known microbial life ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully completed its initial commissioning following the October 14, 2024, launch.

Reanalysis of NASA Galileo data identifies ammonia-bearing compounds on Europa, linking surface fractures, cryovolcanism, and subsurface ocean chemistry relevant to future Europa Clipper ...

New findings published in Nature Astronomy suggest the latter. By analyzing microwave data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft during ...