Europa is one of the largest of more than 90 moons in orbit around the planet Jupiter. It is also one of the best places to look for alien life. Often termed an "ocean world" by scientists ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Currently, some of the best contenders for life in Earth’s backyard are celestial bodies that have subsurface water oceans, which planetary scientists call ocean worlds. One of these candidates is ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

Because it has perhaps the best probability of harboring life of ... Although Europa is icy at the surface, tidal forces created by Jupiter’s immense gravity squeeze the moon’s icy crust ...

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When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon ... It’s possible that the small moon may have once held water, like Europa or Ganymede, as ice was once common in its part ...

Rayme Traub, a Sherrard native and NASA engineer, helped design the Europa Clipper probe. On Saturday, the probe will undergo a gravitational slingshot maneuver as it streaks above Mars.