For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today ...

Exploring the Enigmatic Secrets of Europa, Jupiter's Icy Moon Scientists were puzzled by one of Jupiter's fascinating moons, ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is set for launch, finally revealing if this icy moon of Jupiter is habitable or not.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life ...

The Moon passes several planets as Jupiter’s Galilean moons delight and Saturn’s satellite Iapetus reaches western elongation ...

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Europa is one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter ... like the bacterial life that originated in Earth’s deep ocean vents. “We will not know from ...

Europa Clipper has officially commenced. The highly anticipated NASA mission to explore Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of ...

It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Illustration of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop of ...

NASA has successfully launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to explore Jupiter’s moon ...

But their names came from German astronomer Simon Marius in 1614 but they are also known as the Galilean moons. The moon is a world unlike Earth’s celestial sibling: With a very thin oxygen ...

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Europa is one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter ... like the bacterial life that originated in Earth’s deep ocean vents. “We will not know from ...