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While studying Europa’s magnetic field in 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft inadvertently collected evidence of watery…
Aug 30 2019
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Special thanks to Darlene Lim of NASA’s Ames Research Center, Mike Malaska of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jill…
Aug 20 2019
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A mission to sample Jupiter’s moon Europa for signs of life will move into its final design and construction phase,…
Jun 12 2019
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Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope point to the presence of sodium chloride on the surface of Jupiter’s…
Feb 27 2019
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How did life first start? Scientists hoping to answer that question are recreating the conditions of early Earth’s…
Dec 8 2018
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Humans have long been warned about Europa, from HAL 9000's infamous “ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE” in 2010: Odyssey Two t…
Oct 9 2018
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Jupiter’s moon Europa, with its subsurface ocean, may have what it takes to foster alien life. A mission to this icy…
Jul 23 2018
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Our Solar System has its own Hoth: Europa, the ice-covered Jovian moon where the existence of alien life hasn’t been…
May 14 2018
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Sometimes, scientists have the answers all along—they just don’t think to ask the question. For example, it appears…
May 10 2018
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A mission that would sample plumes of gas shooting off of Jovian moon Europa appears to remain on track for a 2022…
Dec 4 2017
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Jupiter’s moon Europa features a warm subterranean ocean covered in ice. For years, scientists have wondered if…
May 10 2017
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Io is the closest thing we have to hell in our Solar System, a Jovian moon that features hundreds of active…
Feb 13 2017
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On Friday, February 10th, NASA announced that a team of 21 scientists had delivered their first report on a lander…
Feb 10 2017
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Since early 2016, a NASA-employed Science Definition Team (SDT) of 21 researchers has been crafting a plan to send a…
Sep 30 2016
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The evidence is mounting that our solar system is rife with oceans. Last week, scientists reported that Pluto could…
Sep 26 2016
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Jupiter’s moon Europa is on the shortlist of places we might discover alien life in our solar system. And today, the…
May 17 2016
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Europa, Jupiter’s watery ice-moon, has long attracted attention as a possible site for someday finding life. Now, a…
May 16 2016
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In a few billion years, the oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will burn up as our sun expands into a red…
Aug 24 2015
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Europa takes a simple question and makes it a challenge: Which of these are frying pans, and which is Jupiter’s…
Aug 11 2015
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Europa’s fabled ocean has inspired science fiction movies and actual space missions alike — and yet we aren’t even…