"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

KEY FINDINGS Europa has long stood at the center of humanity’s search for life beyond Earth, its cracked ice shell and hidden ocean making it one of the solar system’s most compelling worlds. Now, as ...

For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has been cast as one of the solar system’s best bets for alien life, a world with a global ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

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NASA’s newest mission is taking an orbiter to study one of Jupiter’s moons for signs of life, and a contractor from the QCA helped with its development. The Europa Clipper launched from the Kennedy ...

For decades, the frozen plains of Jupiter's moon, Europa, have served as the crown jewel of astrobiology. Beneath a fractured ...

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

You have likely heard Europa described as one of the most promising places to search for life beyond Earth. The icy moon of ...

Looking Up is transcribed using a combination of AI speech recognition and human editors. It may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dean Regas: In the movie ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where ...