How did life first start? Scientists hoping to answer that question are recreating the conditions of early Earth’s…
Humans have long been warned about Europa, from HAL 9000's infamous “ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE” in 2010: Odyssey Two to…
Jupiter’s moon Europa, with its subsurface ocean, may have what it takes to foster alien life. A mission to this icy…
Our Solar System has its own Hoth: Europa, the ice-covered Jovian moon where the existence of alien life hasn’t been…
Sometimes, scientists have the answers all along—they just don’t think to ask the question. For example, it appears…
A mission that would sample plumes of gas shooting off of Jovian moon Europa appears to remain on track for a 2022…
Jupiter’s moon Europa features a warm subterranean ocean covered in ice. For years, scientists have wondered if certain…
Io is the closest thing we have to hell in our Solar System, a Jovian moon that features hundreds of active volcanoes…
On Friday, February 10th, NASA announced that a team of 21 scientists had delivered their first report on a lander…
Since early 2016, a NASA-employed Science Definition Team (SDT) of 21 researchers has been crafting a plan to send a…
The evidence is mounting that our solar system is rife with oceans. Last week, scientists reported that Pluto could…
Jupiter’s moon Europa is on the shortlist of places we might discover alien life in our solar system. And today, the…
Europa, Jupiter’s watery ice-moon, has long attracted attention as a possible site for someday finding life. Now, a new…
In a few billion years, the oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will burn up as our sun expands into a red giant.…
Europa takes a simple question and makes it a challenge: Which of these are frying pans, and which is Jupiter’s moon?…
Europa’s fabled ocean has inspired science fiction movies and actual space missions alike — and yet we aren’t even sure…
Curious about how life got started on Earth 3.8 billion years ago? Here’s a thought: Why not recreate ancient…
The search for life in the Solar System is about the hunt for water. Wherever we find liquid water on Earth, we find…
In the last week, Venus and Jupiter were at their conjunction, and photographer Adam Tomaszewski took this fantastic…
The allure of a warm, liquid ocean beneath Europa’s icy surface has inspired science fiction and real NASA missions…
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