As the years go by, the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But it's not out of contention yet. Europa is simply full of surprises. We're talking about the second moon of Jupiter, ...

The icy moon of Jupiter. A world so frigid that its surface temperatures would instantly turn you into an astronaut popsicle. Its atmosphere is almost non existent, and while it contains oxygen, it is ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures beneath planetary surfaces—something that couldn’t be tested on Earth. The ...

Earth’s deep-sea hydrothermal vents provide a model for understanding how life could exist on Europa. Holden’s team is studying how vent microbes generate energy using hydrogenases to predict what ...

Can life survive in the solar system once the sun dies and becomes a red giant star? New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer ...

A thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way take readings on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. To test the camera and its readings, the NASA mission detoured to Mars, relying on the ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar system. Can life survive in the solar system once the sun dies and becomes a ...