The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has ...

A series of experiments led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Ujjwal Raut support spectral data recently collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that found evidence that the icy surface ...

A series of experiments support spectral data recently collected by the James Webb Space Telescope that found evidence that the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is constantly changing.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft (illustrated here with Jupiter in the background) will come within 16 miles of the moon's surface. For more than a quarter century, scientists have wanted to send ...

Learn how ice crystallizes on the surface of Europa, a moon of Jupiter, may hold promise for signs of extraterrestrial life within its subsurface ocean.

In chaos terrains like Tara Regio, the presence of strange chemicals—including table salt and carbon dioxide—suggests that ...

Europa is a cold moon, with surface temperatures ranging from minus 210 to minus 370 degrees Fahrenheit, and it's covered in ice. Ice thickness estimates vary from 6 to 15 miles. Researchers ...

The moon, Europa, is thought to have conditions that are right for life–but with a catch. Any life would likely be hidden away beneath a deep global ocean, plus a layer of surface ice that could ...

No such mission is currently scheduled for either moon, however. “Slow rates of amino acid destruction in biological samples under Europa and Enceladus-like surface conditions bolster the case ...

As a Galilean moon, Europa orbits near the planet and within its strong magnetic field. Thus, the surface gets bombarded by radiation. It is tidally locked, meaning it shows the same face to Jupiter ...

A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has outlined the decade-long development and testing of what was ...