A new finding of ammonia on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could have important implications for the search for ...

Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — ...

The search for life-supporting worlds in the solar system includes the Jovian moon Europa. Yes, it's an iceberg of a world, ...

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"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

NASA has made an exciting discovery on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, that could have major implications for the search for life beyond Earth. Scientists have detected ammonia, a chemical crucial for ...

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

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the subsurface ocean of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that ranks among the strongest ...

Europa might not be the best place to look for alien life in the solar system after all. A new study modeling what the floor of the Jupiter moon's hidden ocean is like concluded that tectonic activity ...

NASA's Galileo mission launched in 1989 and was operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Research into Jupiter’s moons shows Io and Europa did not evolve apart but formed with opposite compositions from the beginning.